A few years ago, a book came out called “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell. In the book he describes how “The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire (Gladwell). He explains that even when water is placed in freezing temperature, there is a tipping point when the water turns into ice. This is even true with social trends. We love learning about tipping points because we all secretly, or not so secretly, want things to start tipping in our favor. We hope if we just keep going and keep doing it, whatever that is, then something will work out… it must work out… it must. Eventually, if we do not get a big break, we think it will never happen. The appreciation we longed for isn’t coming from the one person we hoped for. It could be the relationship could have turned around, but it didn’t. Not many of us experience what we would consider a tipping point, but we all will experience a breaking point. If the tipping point is that magic moment things just come together, then the breaking point is that tragic moment things fall apart.

Sometimes the breaking point comes because we were running hard and fast away from God. In other cases, we added the things of God to our load, but all of it was still too much. Sometimes we were going in God’s direction and someone else did something causing the breaking point. In any case, I want to assure you, IT IS NEVER WASTED. God will teach you something about his love you never would have known before the breaking point.

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” (James 1:2-4)