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Subject: Beauty for Ashes
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endtimes 20.02.08 - 09:03pm
In order to bring forth sweetness, there has to be some suffering. To bring about the beauty of the flame, something must go to ashes.
Blessings comes from suffering. Hebrews 12:11 says:
Now no chastening seems joyful for the present, but painful: nevertheless afterward it yields the peacable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
It is like a giant hand taking a honeycomb and squeezing it - and out comes the honey. Or it's like when Moses smote the rock: The rock received a blow, but out came the water. The heart of stone has to be broken before the water of God's Spirit can flow out to refresh people.
It's like a beautiful flower that's pressed and crushed, but out comes the perfume. Or like the beautiful music that comes from the throat of the bird, almost as though the bird's song may be sad, it's so sweet. The groans are not murmurs, but songs of praise and thanksgiving to God - a sad, sweet song!
As the great poet Shelley once said, Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thoughts! Praise is the voice of faith! *
endtimes 20.02.08 - 09:18pm
We could never appreciate the light unless we had once been in darkness. We couldnt appreciate health unless we had been sick.
We cant appreciate joy until we've known sorrow. We can't appreciate God's mercy until we've known the Devil's justice.
Prayer:
Lord, help us not to fight Your crushing, Your bruising, Your smiting. Help us not to quench that beautiful song, even if it's sad, to thank You in spite of sorrow. Help us to be willing to be smitten and crushed under Your hand, to be squeezed and to be bruised, to be in agony of spirit, that we may give forth Your sweetness, Your fragrance, Your beauty, Your song, Your refreshing waters. Out of what seems lile defeat, come some of Your greatest victories! Amen.
God comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. *
winter16 15.03.08 - 12:53pm
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seastarr 13.06.08 - 12:37am
Amen. To everything thing there is a season. A time for every purpose under Heaven. Eccl 3:1 
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gbopp 13.06.08 - 04:37am
Hebrew12:5-11 Readers must not assume the sufferings sometimes endured as a result of our Christian profession mean that God is unconcerned about our welfare. Far from neglecting us, He shows Himself to be a true Father in the experience of discipline. Chastens means corrective discipline used in training children. Such treatment is administered not harshly, ''but in love,'' with the well being of the child in mind. Instead of becoming discouraged, the believer should view any persecutions as evidence of God's love for them as His children, bringing them to full ''Spiritual Maturity.'' The writer of Hebrews does not suggest that God is responsible for the sufferings that hostile sinners bring upon themselves, but he does indicate that God uses even adverse cir tances as instruments to accomplish His purpose. *
gbopp 13.06.08 - 04:51am
Ecclesiastes3:14 I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever, Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should reverence before Him............. *There is a sense within the temporal, imperfect realm that the Eternal, Perfect Realm exists* Matthew6:10,11 Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. 11.Give us this day our daily bread. *the petitioner asks for the establishment of God's rule, not only in the consummation of the Age to come but in lives and situations now. This is further defined as God's will being done on Earth Jesus Christ encourages prayer 
for physical needs, which are vitality linked with Kingdom concerns. *
