We are so proud and confident, and yet we know this is our downfall. Our religion is destroying us, our trying to be holy pulling us down.

The church was built on brokenness. We are formed into a body, a commonwealth gathered to a table, breaking bread and sharing the fruits of the vine. Life to the full. Yet in our companionship, the breaking of bread reminds us of the brokenness of Jesus’s body and the wine, the pouring out of his life.

Knowing our brokenness brings us before God. Our God saves, and rightwiseness is a gift.

Come let us boast in the Lord. Come let us love God. Come let is love one another. It begins with us knowing our need, a seed sown, that we might grow.

The Lord’s discipline is in giving us up to our own ways. It’s standing beside us when we muck up, being there, ready, when we choose to turn to him. The gate is his cross, the place of brokenness, the beginning of victory. The light is his presence in all creation, drawing us to him, to peace.

‭Psalms 118:18-29 HCSB‬

[18] The Lord disciplined me severely but did not give me over to death.

[19] Open the gates of righteousness for me; I will enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.

[20] This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous will enter through it.

[21] I will give thanks to You because You have answered me and have become my salvation.

[22] The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

[23] This came from the Lord; it is wonderful in our eyes.

[24] This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

[25] Lord, save us! Lord, please grant us success!

[26] He who comes in the name of the Lord is blessed. From the house of the Lord we bless you.

[27] The Lord is God and has given us light. Bind the festival sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

[28] You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God; I will exalt You.

[29] Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His faithful love endures forever.

https://bible.com/bible/72/psa.118.18.HCSB