We know that God is always at work for the good of everyone who loves him. They are the ones God has chosen for his purpose. Romans 8:28
_there was once a emperial garden of beautiful flowers all around the world collected and perfectly landscaped into an amazing plains and hills of colors and fragrances. people come and go and come again to experience the wonderful scenery in the confined environment where every imperfection is a perfection of its beauty. it became so famous that bees around the world thirst the opportunity to be there. until one day, a fire break lose and eat all up to ashes, all the "beauty" that was there. the colors that remained were black and gray. the scent was burnt. the graden was ashes. the beauty was lost. the scent was burned. the place was devastated. years after the heat has been watered, flowers of unknown names sprouted in the area. the black ashed land were now slowly being covered by leaves and sprouts of colors that was years back extinct. into amazement and wonder, the area was then again a garden but not of beautifully collected flowers around the world but by endemic "lost" flowers that have not seen years ago. the fire did not only destroyed, it brought back to life the seeds that were dormant for years for a much more beautiful and fragrant garden than it was before.
_the same with our life. we cannot be our best when pain and hurt is not a part of our walk. there will always be an area of our travel where pain and suffering are so abundant. we are like gold that needs a lot of fire to be refined, purified and be perfect. yes, we need to endure a lot of pain and suffering as our Potter molds and carves us according to His plan. it will be painful and realy devastating when what we think is good and beautiful will be destroyed and be replaced by something we still do not know yet. it will be really disappointing and discouraging when what we had obtained and tried to put up for years will be thug away to the roots for something we do not know.
_but like the garden, the fire that burned the area is the same fire that brought out the real beauty that the land has. it is not what they put on the land that made the area beautiful but what is in it that it not seen. the fire burned every superficial beauty and nourished the beauty that is inside.
_let the fire bring out the best of you and not just the worst of what you have.
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