Look ye upon this photo – really look at it. It’s not terribly appealing. If it were a hot summer day, this would also be covered with flies, and a nasty stench would be wafting up to greet the nostrils. There’s almost nothing beautiful about this, unless, like me, you find the collage of colors interesting. But I’ve told you the truth here. In this world, things die and decay, they smell bad. Can this ugly truth be beautiful? Can we look upon an innocent man beaten, bleeding and dying on a cross and see beauty? My friends, the answer is yes, if you know how to look beyond death and see resurrection. If you can look at this photo and see rich, dark soil being used to grow vegetables and flowers, you’ve learned the art of seeing the resurrection. “For though the outer man is decaying, yet the inner man is being renewed day by day.” Though the eggshells and red peppers are decaying, yet the soil is being renewed day by day. Don’t take my word for it – go start your own compost pile and see for yourself. Better yet, look upon the Man who wore the ugliness of death and then reversed it so that your ugly death could be reversed and the soil of your soul renewed to produce beautiful fruit. Until then, you’re just a pile of smelly compost that never changes.
I’ll probably delete this in the morning.
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