Beautiful Things

I've been listening to "Beautiful Things" by Gungor repeatedly today.

I am broken. I am damaged. I sin. I have fears. I worry. I make mistakes. I throw temper tantrums. I can never be good enough.

God still has a plan in place for me to overcome all of those things.

I want so much more from my life then what I am getting currently.  It's a mixture of me not trying hard enough, me losing my identity in times when I don't place God as my center, a negative attitude, and sin in general.

God is still going to make something beautiful out of me, out of this life.  I know that.

In the meantime I find myself feeling stuck or alone, and it is incredibly frustrating. I find myself battling a spiral of emotions, and fighting off depression.

It's in these times when I draw to the book of James.

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perserverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.  If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.  But when you ask, you must not doubt..." James 1:2-6

Those words give me hope.  All of these emotions and trials (big and small) are making me into something much more beautiful than I am, and putting me in a place where I can serve God that much more.


"You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust. You make beautiful things,You make beautiful things out of us."