BEAUTY FOR ASHES

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 BEAUTY FOR ASHES

It is not all the time  that Jesus turns water into wine, No! Sometimes, many times, He gives you beauty for ashes. 

Think of the process that turns a blossoming tree into ashes
First it must be cut down,  turned into firewood, then coals and finally, ashes, meaning the absolute end.There is nothing else expected from the Ash apart from being thrown away.

This is the reality also to men, today you might be blossoming and tommorrow life turns you into ashes.This is where we describes the situation as hitting the rock bottom. Once blossoming marriage is broken. Your partner marries someone else after wasting your youthful years, your dear one dies, loss of property, etc.

Tragedies and unfavorable situations are real. Sometmes it feels like the lot of unbeliever and believer is the same. Its okay to feel broken,Believing in faith is not the same as pretence,  Prophet Jeremiah felt so many times, At the end of the day Christianity is not about faking and pretences to make everything look okay. Do not be hard on yourself when you express your humanity in the midst of pain.

Even in this situation where water cannot be turned into  wine, Jesus who promised to never leave you is there to give you beauty.
Not beauty to conceal the ashes but to  replace the ashes with beauty.

I pray for you who feels like there is nothing good that can come out of the situation you are in , those who have hit the rock bottom and those that are in confusion and they feel like their faith candle is dimming.

Their is nothing like hopeless for a believer of Christ. You will rise again! You are  only hard-pressed but not crushed. Keep the Hope candle lighting! 

(2 Corinthians 4:8)We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed

#keephopeagainsthopealive

Happy reading

Agatha Muturi

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