I have been delivered from my suffering! None of my circumstances have changed but God changed me! The time in the crucible has not been for nothing. God purified me through my trials and has changed my heart of discouragement to a heart of hope! Today I was reading from my devotional and I want to share what it said...
The stones in the wall said, "We have come from mountains far away...from the sides of rugged cliffs. Fire and water have worked on us for ages but have only produced crevices. Yet human hands like yours have made us into homes where children of your immortal race are born, suffer, rejoice, find rest and shelter, and learn the lessons that our Maker and yours is teaching. BUT, to come to the point of being used for this purpose, we have endured much. Dynamite has torn to our very heart, and pickaxes have broken and split us into pieces. Often as we lay disfigured and broken in the quarry, everything seemed to be without design or meaning. But gradually we were cut into blocks and some of us were chiseled with sharper instruments until we had a fine edge. Now we are complete, in our proper places, and are of service."
"You however, are still in your quarry. You are not complete, and because of that, as once was the case with us, there is much you do not understand. But you are destined for a higher building, and someday you will be placed in it by angelic hands, becoming a living stone in a heavenly temple!" Author unknown
Great Sculptor, hew and polish me; nor let, hidden and lost, Your form within me lie.
Psalm 63:4...I will praise you Lord, for as long as I live!
Your mighty blows are not to crush me but to reveal your image from inside my heart of stone!
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