Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. And the title of today's post is

Once Broken, Now Beautiful. Our review of the posts we've been doing on hope deferred, desolation,

brokenness. Proverbs 13, 12 on hope deferred, desolation, brokenness.

Proverbs 13, 12, hope deferred makes the heart sick.

But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words.

Knowing this, God sculpted and shaped a vivid picture of failure,

loss, heartbreak, disappointment, in the form of a mountain, horrib. The very name means desolation,

waste place, barrenness, dryness.

All results, all not coincidentally,

are also results of unchecked hope deferred.

Then he placed Moses, whose life now pictured all of the above, on this mountain,

to live out his hope deferred years. Or so it seemed, Moses worked and lived on and around

Horab during his 40-year exile,

tending sheep and shoveling dung

instead of bathing in royal hot tubs.

There can be no more severe case of hope-deferred heart disease

than what Moses experienced. Having lost his royal inheritance

and his destiny, I realize it ain't over till it's over, but let's face it, after being dead

and buried for 40 years, a dream can be considered over. Left unchecked, hope deferred produces heart disease,

as the opening verse tells us. And just as physical heart disease kills the body, spiritual and

emotional heart disease kills the body, spiritual and emotional heart disease kills the soul.

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