Kristallnacht!

At the unofficial beginning of WWII in 1938, the Nazis raided Jewish Housing units and stores. Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed.

I'm sure you have all heard Alabaster by Rend Collective Experiment, but DJ's sermon immediately reminds me of these lyrics:

I am broken at Your feet
Like an alabaster jarEvery piece of who I amLaid before Your majesty
I will bow my life
At Your feetAt Your feetMy lipsSo lost for wordsWill kiss Your feetKiss Your feet
Oh the gravity of YouDraws my soul unto its knees I will never be the sameI am lost and found in You.

Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed because God was unable to find at least ten righteous people throughout the entire city.  Upon a bit of research I found one source that estimated the population of these two cities to approximately 1200 and another 4000.  That's .008% and .0025% of the population that God would have needed to find as upright in order to save the city.  But, according to DJ, God, actually, only needed one! .0008% and .00025% respectively!  That's crazy! 

What if God spoke to Sonshine in a similar fashion?  Unless I find one of your staff members/volunteers righteous, I'm going to blow this place up into smithereens!  And, I think, thank God for the Cross.  But, then I also think, well hey, I think many of us can attest to a season (or MANY seasons) at Sonshine where we felt like God had blown us up, fragmented us, and left us in pieces.  

So what's left?  As we are broken "at Your feet, like an alabaster jar, every piece of who [we are], laid before your Majesty.  [We] will bow our lives at your feet... [Our] lips so lost for words will kiss Your feet."  Sounds entirely reminiscent of a summer on the water. We become so broken that we literally have no where else to turn, but to His feet / the foot of the Cross.

I so often think I have it all together and forget my utter / complete brokenness.  In these times (which are often and more likely constant), I need to ensure I am just taking one of my broken pieces and laying it before Him, but wrapping up all the shards in my arms, as bloody as I may become, and lay them down, at His feet.