Rise From Ashes

Are you experiencing discomforts? Many of us want to run away from that discomfort but that unfortunately only extends our discomforts. Certain discomforts can be a good thing sometimes. God wants us to be refined and humbled. If you haven’t sacrificed all your heart’s attachments on the altar yet, you will need to eventually. That is the price we must pay for sanctification.

Once we are there, God helps us rebuild ourselves from the ashes. This process is liberating and our world changes. Our lives becomes even more peaceful and we become more powerful.

When we are pure in heart with a desire to love and know God better, then that discomfort becomes a great opportunity for change. Our discomfort comes from shifting negative old thoughts and beliefs out as we make room for God. Many times, it is uncomfortable to throw out old ideas and beliefs and adopt new enlightened thoughts and beliefs.

To make the needed changes, God refines us over and over again until He thinks we are ready. We will eventually need to be stripped of our all. Everything needs to ‘burn on the altar’ until we are left with just our will. From this space, we have a choice to continue to serve God or not.

Our goal is to be more fully connected to God. If we are able to humble ourselves willingly, God will not need to compel us to change. Be obedient to Him in all the little things and eventually you will be able to hear Him clearly to do the bigger things. Job, a righteous man mentioned in the Bible, was a good and righteous man, yet he needed to descend lower and lower until in the ‘dust and ashes’ he fully changed.

You and I need to be ready, willing and able to change like that too. We can not let our minds overrule our heart’s inspirations. Our hearts need to led and be connected to God. Being fully connected to God means we can hear him clearly. We can’t survive in these days with just a fuzzy warm feeling in our heart. The heart, gut, mind needs to be aligned and we hear clear words, sentences, instructions, love, and light. I believe we have that ability. Every one of our experiences can be consecrated for our own good and for the good of others. God doesn’t wastes any experiences, especially the painful ones.

As we bare one another’s burdens, we will learn to connect more with each other. I also believe that in the heavenly realm we can just talk telepathically. When you have friends who are of one-mind- one-heart with you, don’t you feel that energy? We don’t need to be alone.

I learned NOT to hide from the heart discomforts. Your heart is made to break and mend. We are meant to come unto Christ with a ‘broken heart and contrite spirit.’¹ God humbles us over and over. He allows us to be ‘abased.’²