Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Try taking a picture of yourself. It's almost impossible to be satisfied with the results. The problem? We don't see ourselves the way everyone else sees us. If we did, we could take that picture and recognize the person in it. Instead we think: No, can't be. I can't look like that. I'd better take another picture -- which turns out just like the last one. Oh, well, I'm stuck with myself.
Now, try seeing yourself as the Lord Jesus see you. Oh, Jesus, don't look, I'm hideous! Again the problem, I am blind to see what He sees when He looks at me. What is my value to Him? Why does He love me?
Isaiah 55:9
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts."

All the things I don't see clearly He sees clearly, even me.
So, take that picture of yourself. Be satisfied that you are fearfully and wonderfully created by a God that calls His creation, "Good."

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