Are you dwelling in the ashes and dust right now? Do you feel 
like Job when he said in Job 30:19, “He throws me into the mud,
and I am reduced to dust and ashes?” Are you in a desert place?
Count it all joy because that means that God is preparing you. He
is getting you ready to step into your blessings. He is working
on your heart and the heart of the one you pray for to bring
about His good and grand and glorious plan to resurrect your
marriage and your family. All He asks is that you pick up your
cross and follow Him.
“Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he
must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
Luke 9:23
So as you set out on this spiritual journey, or for many of us,
continue this spiritual journey, remember that God can bring
beauty out of ashes. He can change hearts and change lives. He
can take what the enemy meant for evil and turn it around for good.
Excerpt from a devotional at www.rejoiceministries.org
