A BEAUTIFUL LIFE

Diana Larkin • 18 December 2024

December 18, 2024

A BEAUTIFUL LIFE

COLOSSIANS 4:12b (TPT) “His prayers are filled with requests to God that you would grow and mature, standing complete and perfect in the beauty of God’s plan for your lives.”

“Did you know that I planned for you to have a LIFE that REFLECTS My BEAUTY? You were made in My BEAUTIFUL image but because you live in a FALLEN world, ALL FALL SHORT of My GLORY and My BEAUTY. The enemy rejoiced when he CONVINCED man to SIN because it MARRED My ORIGINAL DESIGN of BEAUTY for you. But I AM a REDEMPTIVE God, and My Son’s Blood delivered you out of the darkness and into the LIGHT. Your spirit is ALIVE, CLEAN, and GROWING but your soul must be TRANSFORMED and your body HEALED from the EFFECTS of SIN. There are STRUGGLES in everyone’s lives because of this BATTLE between DARKNESS and LIGHT—both INTERNALLY and EXTERNALLY. I want you to realize that it is the STRUGGLES you go through that PRODUCE BEAUTY in your life. Consider a butterfly TRAPPED in its chrysalis. In the DARKNESS it is GROWING its wings and it is in the STRUGGLE to BREAK FREE that those wings become STRONG and BEAUTIFUL. If you ‘HELP’ a butterfly break free, its wings will NOT DEVELOP THE STRENGTH THEY NEED TO SOAR AND BRING SUCH BEAUTY TO MY WORLD. View your own STRUGGLES through this lens—that they are producing STRENGTH and BEAUTY in you to OVERCOME and to SOAR. I may seem FAR AWAY when you are STRUGGLING in the dark, but I AM right there, CHEERING you on to BELIEVE My GOODNESS and My PURPOSES for your life. I AM watching over My Word to PERFORM it in your life. The VICTORIES that are WON in your STRUGGLES are HIGHLY VALUED and DILIGENTLY PROTECTED. When you REMAIN in FAITH throughout your STRUGGLES, GREAT BEAUTY and the FRAGRANCE of LIFE are produced. When you walk with Me through your STRUGGLES, it produces a GRATEFUL HEART and DEEP HUMILITY. You will REFLECT Me in A BEAUTIFUL LIFE.” 11 CORINTHIANS 4:17 (TPT) “We view our slight, short-lived troubles in light of eternity. We see our difficulties as the substance that produces for us an eternal, weighty glory far beyond all comparison,”

Diana Larkin

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