Revelation of the Spirit - #7 We can trade our Ashes in for Beauty

In my reading of the Seven Longings of the Human Heart I came over a great revelation. Sometimes I feel as though my life is in the pits in neither worth God paying attention to or me contiuing on the track I'm on. Life can feel so stupid sometimes and worthless. And when I try to find entertainment and fascination in TV, Movies and other stupid things life feels worthless. And when the world has told me just how ugly and fat and whatever lies it and Satan and have reached my heart life feels worthless. And without a Savior through all of that it is worthless because we're seeking pleasure else where then the one who gave us these pleasures. But there's hope. When we seek the Lord as Our personal, living-in-our-hearts Savior he makes a trade with us. He takes our ashes(our burnt out worthless life) for His Beauty. Isn't that truely amazing?

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor, to give them beauty for ashes.
Isaiah 61:1-3

God takes our good for nothing worthless ashes of a life and gives us His Beauty. The Lord has beauty like none of us can imagine and to have His beauty is like none other. I don't know about you but I want beauty and the Lord wants to give it to us and I'm going to take it. My challenge to you today is to lay your ashes before the Lord and say "Lord I have nothing but ashes to offer" and I promise the Lord will you his beauty for those ashes.

Be Blessed by His Grace!


Amen.