Some days etch themselves into our personal and group history and emotions like a plasma cutter’s engravery on a slab of polished diamond.
Only God’s grace and forgiveness — working in me, living in me, expressing itself through me — can finish the plasma cutter’s work into a thing of astonishing beauty to the praise of His glory.
Whatever your day that will live in infamy, use it as a good day for expressing gracious thoughts, for they could have much cheer for many!
“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” (Isaiah 61:3).
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Psalms 42:11 (KJV)
11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?
hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him,
who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. Ephesians 2:16,17