Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song, and lyrics from Chris McClarney singing … Beauty for Ashes … poignantly singing of how our Lord will one day give all His chosen ones eternal beauty for all the ashes we experience in this life. … AND THEN ON TO THIS LINK to hear Gordon Mote singing … Don’t Let Me Miss the Glory … where this blind songwriter sings his song about experiencing moments of blessing to reflect on God’s beauty in the midst of the ashes of this life.
Just a glimpse of God's glory
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 61:3a [ESV] ... 3 … [the Messiah will come] … to grant to those who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, …
… The Messiah will bring beauty for ashes …
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 61:1-7 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Isaiah prophesies the coming of the time of Messiah to bring favor to God’s chosen.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [ESV] … 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.
… In the face of the ugliness of this world, we must trust that our Lord will one day bring the beauty He promises.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 6:26:30 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus preaches against our worrying about the conditions of life, … promising that God, the Father, will always take care of His beloved children.
Reference Passage : … Luke 4:18-21 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus clearly declares that He is the one Who has come to fulfill Isaiah prophesy of the Messiah, Who had come to save God’s people
Reference Passage : … 2Corinthians 4:16 [ESV] … 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
… Paul exhorts us Christian, to show us His promises of glory in the face of our deteriorating selves.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Adam R Holz, uses a reality story to illustrate how technology is becoming an idol in our lives. … The ODB author wrote: One January morning I woke expecting to see the same dreary midwinter landscape that had greeted me for several weeks: beige grass poking through patches of snow, gray skies, and skeletal trees. Something unusual had happened overnight, though. A frost had coated everything with ice crystals. [see photo] The lifeless and depressing landscape had become a beautiful scene that glistened in the sun and dazzled me.
So often, we have a tendency to focus on the ugliness of our circumstances or our world; and we miss the glory that God has for us or the eternal beauty He promises. But then, occasionally, He allows us to see glimpses of His glory as with the beautiful frost in the photo or as we hear sung in the attached two songs.
So, I pray that all reading here will take in the songs and meditate deeply on the scriptures above to see that our Lord has truly come to bring us His eternal beauty to cover the ashes and ugliness of this world. We merely must do all we can not to miss His promised glory.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Jesus, … for giving us Your glimpses of glory to take our attention away from the ugliness of this world.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to look for and revel in the brief glimpses of glory God sends our way to show us what lies ahead in heaven. Amen
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