Beautiful Death

It never ceases to amaze me how death can bring forth such beauty...

What appears to be death is actually the secret to LIFE!

"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
"He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
"If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor."
(John 12:24-26)

"By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks." (Hebrews 11:4)

As we allow self to be consumed by Jesus, He will bring forth beauty from ashes.

Death to self-- why do we shun the very thought?! Oh, if only we would see the beauty of the life of Christ, the life He desires to live in us! A life of surrender to and dependence on God, a life of death to self, is a beautiful thing. The prayer of my heart is that I can truthfully say every moment of my life "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." (Galatians 2:20)

"Amazing Love! How can it be that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?"

Christ Himself has died for me, I will die to self for Him...