The Breakdown

The breakdown is just God allowing our structures to be overloaded so we can reach the end of ourselves and realise our vows not to need help aren't serving us but destroying us. Only when we hit rock bottom do we call out to Him to ask for help.

Sometimes the breakdown isn’t punishment — it’s mercy.

It’s God, in His deep wisdom, allowing the weight of our self-made structures to collapse under their own pressure. Not because He wants to see us suffer, but because He longs for us to see. To truly see.

We’ve made silent vows, haven’t we? Promises whispered in pain: “I’ll never need anyone… I’ll do this alone… I have to stay strong.” But those vows, though born from survival, become shackles. They isolate us. They harden us. And over time, they begin to destroy the very parts of us God wants to heal.

So He lets it unravel.

He lets the façade shake, the scaffolding of self-reliance sway — until we reach the end of ourselves. Until rock-bottom becomes holy ground. Because it’s there, in the ashes of our striving, that our hearts finally cry out: “Lord, I can’t do this without You.”

And the beautiful thing is — He’s been waiting all along. With arms wide open. With grace enough to hold what’s broken. “The Lord is near to the broken-hearted and saves the crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34:18).

There’s no shame in breaking. Sometimes, it’s the only path to wholeness.

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