Rise Up From The Ashes
We have been focusing on Isaiah 61 this week.
Today we will be reading from Isaiah 61:3
and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,
Over here we read the words of Isaiah prophesying that the children of God who are grieving today will get a crown of beauty and not ashes. Those who are in depression today and are in need of medical help should turn to God. God is our medicine!
In those days, when you are in deep sorrow, you will take the ashes and drench yourself from head to toe in it and sit and grieve. There are others who tear their outer garments and cry out. Everyone has a different method of grieving. There are multiple expressions of grief. One expression is depicted here - sitting in the ashes or throwing the ashes over your head on your body. This shows lamentation, regret, mourning. According to European-English culture, people adorn black clothes as a sign of mourning.
Job 2:8 says Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
Job was a person who had lost everything in his life. He lost his health, his ten children, and his business. Everything in his life fell apart and we can see him mourning in the ashes. This was an expression of deep, intense grief and sorrow.
Instead of this, God has promised us a crown of beauty!
If your dreams are becoming a handful of ashes then life becomes a dire situation. You no longer look forward to life but looking for the end. All of this has been promised to be changed from ashes to a crown of beauty.
Who wears a crown? A king or a queen normally wears a crown. A crown depicts authority, power, joy, approval, honour, beauty and so on! This is what God intends to bestow upon us.
GOD CAN CHANGE YOUR SITUATION!
You might be considered a failure in your studies or at your workplace, but in a second God can change your situation right now if you believe! God has already done His part of the promise and now it is left to us to apply it into our lives with the help of the Holy Spirit. So keep your eyes focused on the crown, not the ashes! Once you change your vision, it will help change your life.
Today we will be reading from Isaiah 61:3
and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,
Over here we read the words of Isaiah prophesying that the children of God who are grieving today will get a crown of beauty and not ashes. Those who are in depression today and are in need of medical help should turn to God. God is our medicine!
In those days, when you are in deep sorrow, you will take the ashes and drench yourself from head to toe in it and sit and grieve. There are others who tear their outer garments and cry out. Everyone has a different method of grieving. There are multiple expressions of grief. One expression is depicted here - sitting in the ashes or throwing the ashes over your head on your body. This shows lamentation, regret, mourning. According to European-English culture, people adorn black clothes as a sign of mourning.
Job 2:8 says Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
Job was a person who had lost everything in his life. He lost his health, his ten children, and his business. Everything in his life fell apart and we can see him mourning in the ashes. This was an expression of deep, intense grief and sorrow.
Instead of this, God has promised us a crown of beauty!
If your dreams are becoming a handful of ashes then life becomes a dire situation. You no longer look forward to life but looking for the end. All of this has been promised to be changed from ashes to a crown of beauty.
Who wears a crown? A king or a queen normally wears a crown. A crown depicts authority, power, joy, approval, honour, beauty and so on! This is what God intends to bestow upon us.
GOD CAN CHANGE YOUR SITUATION!
You might be considered a failure in your studies or at your workplace, but in a second God can change your situation right now if you believe! God has already done His part of the promise and now it is left to us to apply it into our lives with the help of the Holy Spirit. So keep your eyes focused on the crown, not the ashes! Once you change your vision, it will help change your life.
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