{"id":7082,"date":"2025-05-19T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chministries.org\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:48:38","slug":"beauty-for-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chministries.org\/blog\/beauty-for-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Eggrolls: Finding beauty for ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-constrained wp-block-column-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Eggrolls are messy inside. Have you ever noticed that? Despite how tasty and orderly it looked on the outside, the inside is full of carrots, cabbage, and other ingredients twisted together without much rhyme or reason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doesn\u2019t that feel like us sometimes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often find myself thinking that I must be perfect before I can go to God. All the ducks must be in their rows, all the rows must be straight, and I\u2019d better have read my Bible before I come before Him in prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any of my mess\u2014my emotions, my worries, my doubts, my trauma, my mistakes, my sins\u2014they must all be neatly tucked away in boxes, hidden away from the sight of a perfect God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, despite my best efforts to order my ducks, they are not ducks\u2014they are cats, and they are everywhere. And as I strive for perfection, it\u2019s as if I forget that my holy God has already done the work on the cross to make me blameless, and I don\u2019t have to do a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All things work together for good<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before an eggroll is ready to eat, you must first gather the ingredients. They\u2019re chopped up, rolled in the wheat flour wrapping, and deep fried in hot oil. In other words, it needs to be prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid this preparation process, it might not seem like anything good is happening. After all, it\u2019s only individual ingredients scattered across a cutting board, broken and unassuming, unaware of the wonderful thing it\u2019s about to become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But isn&#8217;t it beautiful? We serve a Master Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He sees all the ingredients of our lives, the pains and the <a href=\"https:\/\/chministries.org\/what-does-the-bible-say-about-joy\/\">joys<\/a>, the sorrows and the successes, and then He brings them together for good. He uses our circumstances to prepare us for His plans for us, plans, as Jeremiah says, to \u201cprosper you\u2026 plans to give you a hope and a future\u201d [Jeremiah 29:11 NIV].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Joseph tells his brothers in Genesis 50:20 [ESV], \u201cAs for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.\u201d There is nothing God cannot use and redeem. He takes the mess of our lives and transforms it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beauty for ashes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>God knows. He knows the pain. He knows the hurts. He sees the memories that run through your mind as you try to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And He promises healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cTo all who mourn in Israel, He will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair. In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks that the Lord has planted for His own glory.\u201d<\/p><cite>Isaiah 61:3 [NLT]<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter what \u201cmess\u201d you\u2019re bringing to the table, God wants to exchange it for a crown of beauty. He sees your ashes and He&#8217;s trading you beauty for your brokenness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can see His redemption played out in the lives of so many people in the Bible:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jacob<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each of His disciples<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mary Magdalene<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nicodemus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paul<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And so many more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the same redemption available to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So before you wear yourself out chasing after perfection, feeling the need to \u201cclean up\u201d before you come to God, remember: He sees. He knows. He\u2019s holding out His loving hands with the promise of beauty, forgiveness, and redemption. He&#8217;s giving you beauty for ashes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eggrolls are messy inside. Have you ever noticed that? 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