We turned our broken into beautiful.....a few of my notes from that powerful message. Love you ladies so much!
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of
the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled
face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed
into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the
Spirit.
2 Cor 3:17-18 (NASB) #glory2glory
That word transformed in the greek
is the same root word for metamorphosis just like the butterfly, in the greek
it was meant to signify something going from ugly to beautiful.
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This is what it means in Isaiah
when it talks about Jesus giving us beauty for ashes.
3 To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of
beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead
of despair. Isaiah 61:3 (NLT)
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That is what our Jesus does, He brings the
beauty of our struggles….He takes the hard things and helps turn them into
beautiful things. Places where we see
His hand, feel His presence, know His goodness even when what we are going
through isn’t good, etc.
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WE must be willing to give him the ashes of our lives. Or as
Paul said I count it all as rubbish compared to the riches of Christ….
These ashes, these struggles become
points of growth and depth and strength…those things push us along our journey
towards contentment and love…..from glory to glory….
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I have never met a strong person with an easy
past.
We are meant to grow stronger from
one destination to the next….not from mess to mess but from glory to glory.
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This means that somehow in order to get to the next level we
have to figure out how to bring the glory into our current struggle. Take the mess and build glory out of the
broken pieces.
Take our pieces and invite the Holy One into the mess! Bring the presence of God right into the center of it all, change your mess into place of holiness, redeem it by filling that space with grace that comes from Jesus.
It is something like a
mosaic….taking the broken pieces and turning it into something glorious…. I
found this quote on my grief journey and thought it was so impactful….
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People can’t know how beautiful you are until your
brokenness is lit from within. Please hear me I am not saying go look for
things that will break you so you can be strong….Life will give you little
trials to develop your skills without even having to look…But let that brokeness be redeemed and used to shine the light of Jesus!
Sure you can look all sparkly and
shiny from the outside but….
In the darkness when all you have is the light
that is when you shine in the most beautiful of ways….
Thats when the pieces of broken
dreams, shattered hearts and empty places get put back together with Jesus glue
we become lit from within and all the scars turn out to be the pieces holding
the beauty together.
That is what redemption is after
all….taking broken humanity and restoring it to it’s original beauty. It’s the divine exchange.
It happens instantly, but also over
time as we let go of the old and reach for the new….as we bring Jesus into the mess of broken pieces and allow the Master to piece it all back together with Jesus glue!!
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