There are seasons in life when it feels like everything is falling apart at the same time. The doors you prayed for stay shut. The people you trusted walk away. The plans you built crumble in your hands. Your strength runs out. Your heart feels shattered.

And in those moments, it’s easy to ask God, “Why would You let me break like this?”

But what I’ve learned—through tears, through loss, through disappointment—is this:

God doesn’t break us to destroy us. He allows brokenness to rebuild us. He allows breaking to prepare us. He allows emptiness to fill us with Himself.

Brokenness is not punishment. It’s preparation.

1. Brokenness Brings You Back to God

When life is good, we often drift without realizing it. We start relying on our own strength. We start trusting our own plans. We start believing we’re in control.

But brokenness snaps us back into truth.

Psalm 34:18

“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

God draws near in brokenness because that’s when we finally stop running, stop pretending, and stop performing. That’s when we finally let Him in.

 2. Brokenness Strips Away What Was Never Meant to Stay

Sometimes God lets things fall apart because they were never meant to hold you up in the first place.

• Wrong relationships

• Wrong mindsets

• Wrong habits

• Wrong identities

• Wrong sources of worth

• Wrong expectations

• Wrong attachments

Brokenness exposes what was weak, unstable, or unhealthy. It reveals what you were leaning on instead of God.

Isaiah 57:15

“…I revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.”

God revives what is surrendered. He rebuilds what is yielded. He restores what is placed in His hands.

3. Brokenness Produces the Strength You’ll Need for the Breakthrough

Breakthrough requires maturity. Breakthrough requires depth. Breakthrough requires character. Breakthrough requires spiritual muscle.

And spiritual muscle is built in the weight room of brokenness.

James 1:2–4

“The testing of your faith produces perseverance… so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.”

God isn’t trying to hurt you. He’s trying to strengthen you. He’s preparing you for what you prayed for.

Some breakthroughs would crush you if they came too early. Brokenness builds the capacity to carry what’s coming.

4. Brokenness Removes Pride and Replaces It With Dependence

There’s a kind of humility that only comes from being brought to your knees. A kind of surrender that only comes from running out of your own strength. A kind of intimacy with God that only comes from needing Him more than anything else.

2 Corinthians 12:9

“My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.”

Your weakness is not a liability. It’s an invitation. It’s where God’s power shows up the strongest.

5. Brokenness Aligns You With God’s Purpose, Not Your Plan

Sometimes what breaks is the plan you built—not the purpose God intended.

You thought the relationship was the blessing. You thought the job was the breakthrough. You thought the opportunity was the answer. You thought the timing was right.

But God saw what you couldn’t.

Romans 8:28

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him…”

Even the breaking. Even the loss. Even the disappointment. Even the detour.

God wastes nothing. Not even your broken pieces.

6. Brokenness Makes Room for God to Do What Only He Can Do

When you reach the end of yourself, you reach the beginning of God.

Breakthrough doesn’t come from your strength. It comes from your surrender.

Breakthrough doesn’t come from your plan. It comes from His purpose.

Breakthrough doesn’t come when you hold everything together. It comes when you place everything in His hands.

Brokenness is the soil where breakthrough grows.

Final Encouragement

If you’re in a season of breaking, you’re not being buried—you’re being planted. You’re not being punished—you’re being prepared. You’re not being abandoned—you’re being rebuilt.

God allows brokenness before breakthrough because He loves you too much to let you walk into your next season unhealed, unready, or unchanged.

Your breaking is not the end. It’s the beginning of something God‑designed, God‑timed, and God‑ordained.

Hold on. Breakthrough is closer than it feels.