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Our
Cinderella Story
Stuck in the desert sands of
the lost.
A slave of the soot and
ashes.
Working through life by the
world's point of view.
A slave of the soot and
ashes.
The rags of repeated anxious
toiling cloth me.
A slave of the soot and
ashes.
Looking for love in all the
wrong places.
A slave of the soot and
ashes.
Repeated rejections make a
head hang in shame.
A slave of the soot and
ashes.
The goodness in my heart
longing for someone
to come and save me.
A slave to the soot and
ashes.
Then the prince of the kings
of earth came
and gave me beauty for ashes.
'Twas Him who ever loved and
once and for all loosed me
from sin,
and gave me beauty for ashes.
He was sent to bind up my
broken heart,
and gave me beauty for ashes.
He proclaimed liberty to my
captivity,
and gave me beauty for ashes.
He placed the glass slippers
of the gospel
of peace on my feet,
and gave me beauty for ashes.
He opened the bound prison
door of my eyes,
and gave me beauty for ashes.
He proclaimed it the
acceptable year of His favor,
and gave me beauty for ashes.
He took me to His kingdom and
I became His bride,
and gave me beauty for ashes.
No longer a mourner in Zion-
I was granted consolation and
joy.
A diadem of beauty place on
my head,
instead of soot and ashes.
He poured out His fragrant
anointing oil of joy on my head
in place of my mourning in
soot and ashes.
In a sparkling white garment
of praise, he clothed me,
to replace the rags of my
heavy, burdened and failing spirit.
No longer in the soot and
ashes of despair.
This princess is now called a
tree
of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord,
that He, the King, may be
glorified.
And the beauty of this story
does not
end there.
It is a living gospel to
others that must
be saved.
A Cinderella story for one
and all.
Who will be next to heed the
Prince of Peace's call,
and be translated from the
Kingdom of
darkness,
to the Kingdom of the Son
of His love.
©
Dee Sturgis 2009
Isaiah 61 1-3
(Amplified Bible)
THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach
the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and
afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and
spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of
the eyes to those who are bound,
To proclaim the acceptable year of
the Lord [the year of His favor] and the day of vengeance
of our God, to comfort all who mourn
To grant [consolation and joy] to
those who mourn in Zion--to give them an ornament (a
garland or diadem) of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of
joy instead of mourning, the garment [expressive] of
praise instead of a heavy, burdened, and failing
spirit--that they may be called oaks of righteousness
[lofty, strong, and magnificent, distinguished for
uprightness, justice, and right standing with God], the
planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.
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