There was a beautiful cathedral in Europe some years ago where one of those kind of rare storms came across and blew away a magnificent stained glass window that has adorned the top of the altar there.

And as the storm blew the stained glass to pieces, literally, to a window.

The custodial looked at the pieces and he was devastated and people came from all over the world to see that beautiful stained glass window.

So he kind of took it upon himself to gather the pieces and put them all the fragments together

in a big box and stored it in the basement of the cathedral.

A well-known artist a few years later came by and he petitioned the trustees of the cathedral when you heard

that all the pieces are together in a box down in the basement, and he said, can I have that box,

please? And the trustees decided that he can have. And two years later, he invited the church

trustees into his own studio where he had unveiled a major work that he has done.

And to their absolute astonishment, he restored the window, and it looked more beautiful than the first one.

More beautiful than the original one.

And I know that if you had any experiences like mine in life, that you probably have experiences

that probably are shattering, just like that stained glass window, that at some point you've

experienced probably the blessings of God, but then you experience also the storms of life,

the blasting of life. And I often say that whenever the blessings come,

there's always the blasting. And the two somehow seem to follow each other on the heels of each

other. And if you have not experienced the restoration of God, if you're going through a tough time

right now, a shattering time right

now, a blasting time, and yet you have not seen the work of the restoration of our wonderful

master artist, the Lord Jesus Christ, take heart he will. You absolutely will. You have God's word on it.

Because God specializes in restoring fragments in life

into magnificent, beautiful, and more meaningful life. God specializes in remaking beauty out of ashes.

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