When something doesn’t work as expected, whether it is a process, machine, brain, foot, relationship or something else, it is said to be dysfunctional. Which is a pretty fancy word for brokenness. We have all experienced dysfunction at one time or another, a brokenness. In general, dysfunction needs tending to, repair, a return to wholeness and health.
We have a wise young friend whose question for the day was, “How often do you defend your dysfunction?” Wow. That’s a bit of a showstopper.
First, do I even recognize my dysfunction? If we don’t think we have a problem that needs to be solved and that we are responsible for that problem and its solution, we likely have an area of dysfunction.
Am I aware and on the healing journey? Or not? It’s very easy to dismiss our dysfunction as that’s just who I am or how I’m wired. We keep our selves on the same path doing the same things and believing the same lies. We defend our dysfunction.
It’s possible that the more often we find ourselves defending our dysfunction, the greater its impact is on those around us and on ourselves.
Asking God’s light into those places of our lives is critical. Recognizing that we are defending or excusing something that God wants to heal requires a submission and release we, I, often am too comfortable to pursue.
Shine Your light, Lord God.
Just Sayin' 