The Breaking Point
- Claimed By Him
- 2 days ago
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Sometimes God doesn’t start healing you until the moment you stop holding everything together.
There’s a moment that many of us try to avoid, the breaking point.
It’s that place where everything you’ve been holding in, holding together, and holding up… starts to slip. And if you’re honest, you don’t want to go there. Because breaking feels like losing control. It feels like weakness. It feels like everything is falling apart.
But what if that moment isn’t your downfall?
What if it’s the beginning of your healing?
When God Starts Revealing What You Tried to Bury
I remember one Saturday morning during prayer, the word unforgiveness kept rising in my heart. Not once. Not twice. But over and over again.
And I had to ask God, why?
Because from the outside, everything looked fine. I had moved on. I had pushed past it. I had convinced myself that what happened didn’t affect me anymore.
But God wasn’t looking at what I covered.
He was looking at what I buried.
And suddenly… everything started unraveling.
The Unraveling You Didn’t Plan For
I tried to ignore it at first. I pushed it down like I always had. Told myself I didn’t have time for this. That I needed to stay focused, stay strong, stay “together.”
But the next morning, on the way to church, I couldn’t hold it anymore.
The weight of what I had been carrying finally caught up to me.
I opened up to my husband and the tears just started falling.
Not the quiet kind either, the kind that comes from deep within. The kind that exposes what you didn’t even realize was still there.
And in that moment, I remember saying,
“I just need to get myself together.”
Because that’s what we do, right?
We cry… then we fix our face.
We break… then we rebuild the mask.
We feel… then we try to regain control.
But God Had Other Plans
I wanted to pull it together.
I wanted to go back to normal.
But God wasn’t allowing me to patch it up this time.
Because what I called “holding it together".
God called for avoiding the healing.
And that was the moment everything shifted.
I realized God wasn’t trying to destroy me.
He was trying to heal me.
Why the Breaking Point Matters
We often think healing starts when we feel strong.
But many times, healing actually begins when we finally stop pretending we are.
That breaking point?
It’s where truth surfaces.
It’s where buried pain is exposed.
It’s where God gently says, “Now… let Me deal with it.”
Because unforgiveness doesn’t disappear just because we ignore it.
It shows up in our reactions.
In our relationships.
In our thoughts.
In the quiet moments we try to avoid.
And God loves us too much to let it stay hidden.
The Flip Side of Breaking
There’s always another side to what we experience.
What feels like falling apart is often God pulling things into alignment.
What feels like weakness is actually the softening of your heart.
What feels like losing control is really you releasing it back to God.
Just like so many stories we see in Scripture, the moments that look like defeat are often the very moments God uses to shift everything.
Letting God Do the Work
Healing doesn’t come from holding everything together.
It comes from surrender.
It comes from saying,
“God, I see it now, and I’m ready for You to deal with it.”
Not rushing the process.
Not covering it back up.
Not trying to control the outcome.
But allowing Him to do what only He can do, heal from the inside out.
A Moment of Reflection
What have you been holding together that God is asking you to release?
What have you buried that keeps trying to surface?
And what would it look like to stop trying to fix it and finally let God heal it?
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Because sometimes what feels like your breaking point…
is actually where God begins to rebuild you
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