Beauty for Ashes
BEAUTY FOR ASHES
It’s one of the most gracious things to watch on Earth. Nothing can compare to its lovely form. It takes your breath away by its beauty. Everything that’s ominous becomes brilliant. It’s quintessential as a swan in a lake: a ballerina.
A ballerina is the most perfect object to behold in all its becomingness. Somehow its this lovely form causes all adversity and shadows to soon leave. How can something so beautiful ever be moved by the capacities and atrocities of life? Ballerinas, when in a ballet, seem unshakeable and unmovable. Beauty has that type of power. Not the beauty that is revolved around vanity, vanity beauty fades. And when carried the wrong way, it becomes superfluous. Yet, vanity beauty has its purpose for God’s glory also. The beauty of a ballerina, or a good ballet, is different. Beauty is the quality, present and a thing or person, that gives deep satisfaction to the mind or personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest. When beauty is on the horizon, there are many qualities spiritually that will manifest.
This will be something religion will contest. Religion hates beauty in any form or style. It hates beauty within or without. Joy is a type of beauty. Religion absolutely despises joy. Your heavenly Father always brings beauty in every situation that is ominous or dark. When beauty shows up, everything that’s evil, hateful and doomed, will disappear because it cannot comprehend its loveliness. God promises to bring beauty to all of your obscure situations. Don’t you want beauty to drive away all the darkness in your life?
Your heavenly Father is going to anoint you with his joy. Not the joy of the world, but his joy that no man can take away from you. This will erase all of your mourning and put a beautiful praise in your mouth unto him forever because of the beauty of salvation that rest upon you. Salvation has many facets. Salvation is the epitome of beauty. Everyone that is saved has a splendid beauty about them. That’s why religious sects try to destroy it but they cannot.
Religion was one of Jesus most competitive oppositions in his ministry. Religion does not always come in long dark roads and bold derogative statements. It can come in bright, lively colors, even cheerful, but inside they are ravenous wolves. They are counterfeit. You will know them by their fruit because they absolutely hate beauty in any form, especially joy. Religion hates salvation, most of all it hates anything that is lovely and beautiful. When you encounter religion, do not try to reason or interact with it. You assume to leave and vacate the premises or their presence immediately, or they will attempt to destroy you and in every affect taint your beauty and torment you.
Jesus is all so lovely and his salvation is the most beautiful thing in the earth. If you are experiencing this type of situation in your life that has resolved to ashes (no results), not to worry. If you have embraced salvation, your heavenly Father promises to make everything in your life beautiful in your season and in his time, like a ballerina.
“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;…” (Is. 61:3).
“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time…” (Eccl. 3:11).
Blessings,
Helen Trower
