From A Season Of Ashes To A Season Of Beauty
Isaiah 61:2-7
God
Seasons, seasons are moments in the dispensations of time, time which is limited time and the mind and concept of human restraint of understanding. We all go through seasons of joy and contentment, hear ache, life and birth, and death and rebirth. The Christian is not immune to any of these, if anything our Lord promised that, "In this life we WOULD HAVE TROUBLES, but take HEART, I have over come this world."
Today is the anniversary of what would a have been my 20th wedding anniversary, a season which ended in a divorce from a high school sweetheart which I contested, begged and pleaded not to end, but end it did. I fought for two years of divorce and custody proceedings to save. But the other part after eighteen years, wished for a new life, spouse, and family and four kids and myself were left hurt, distraught, and alone I the human since. But...but this season of ashes would yield to a season of miraculous beauty.
This season, this valley of darkness and alone in the Lord would have implications not of negative sense or mindset, but one of growth, ministry, and hope because of Jesus. There was a time for where a year and a half I soaked my pillow, weeping, and pain worse than death that at that season of time, seemed it would never end, BUT it did, because of this truth, this hope in Christ that was proven by God Himself:
"2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them." (Isaiah 61:2-7 KJV)
This promise written in a season upon which Israel was destroyed after manifest sin and spiritual adultery. They application to the child of Christ is this: " Is Christ your lord, Redeemer, Savior? Then the hope is yours as well! Jesus came in, and he held my heart, hand, and mind. He taught me that he is there, He doesn't leave us in our sin or condition.
"26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." (Romans 8:26-37 KJV)
Jesus kept this promise to me, He held my hand as I would weep for a year and a half, He would go Christmas shopping with me, He would have lunch with me, He would shop with me ,and he would be my spouse as I raised my eight children, alone though teenage years, and He met every financial and relationship need, and He has provided a single parent with more than deserved, provide with no help from the estranged spouse, he proved Himself as my spouse, as my friend, and companion. He proved the precept from ashes to beauty, and God is Good. Love in Christ, Jason
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