| Daily
Thought – July 13, 2004 |
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| LIVING THE SOLUTION WITH DAILY INSPIRATION |
I often think
of the heavens your hands have made, and of the moon
and stars you put in place. Then I ask, "Why do
you care about us humans? Why are you concerned for
us weaklings?" You made us a little lower than
you yourself, and you have crowned us with glory and
honor.
You let us rule everything your hands have made. And
you put all of it under our power. (Psalm 8:3-6, Contemporary
English Version)
How do you see yourself? Are you
just a sinner saved by grace, a lowlife undeserving
of God’s love, pond scum? Or are you a glorious
ruin?
We have been taught that we are a worthless wretch;
we even have songs about how bad and worthless we are.
We have been taught that there is nothing that we have,
nothing in our being that makes us of any value to God.
And it is only by His compassion for this undeserving
low life that we even know Him. But is that how and
why we were created? Was that God’s design for
us? Or did He have something different in mind when
He thought of us, of you?
We were created in glory, by Glory, for glorious living
(Ephesians 1:11). We were not created as pond scum.
But that is what we think and how we live. We go around
hanging our heads, feeling bad about ourselves because
of our fallen past. We need to look further back into
our past to our creation. That is where the real you
was created in glory, by Glory, for glorious living
and glorious relationship with God.
When God sent His son it was not to save a bunch of
pond scum parasites, it was to redeem, set free and
capture the hearts of His glorious beloved. Sin had
tarnished us - His creation, His beloved - taken our
true glory and Jesus came back to restore it to us that
we may fulfill our purpose for which God gloriously
created us. He sees not what we have become as a result
of sin but what we were and what we can be once again:
grand and glorious.
In the movie Les Miserables , Fantine, who has become
a prostitute as the result of some life tragedy and
financial ruin, is rescued by Jean Valjean, who takes
her to his home. She tells him, “But you don’t
understand. I am a whore. And my daughter has no father.” To
which Jean replies, “She has the Lord. He is her
father. And you‘re his creation. In His eyes you’ve
never been anything but an innocent and beautiful woman.”
No longer look at yourself as a lowlife, pond scum parasite.
That is not who you are. You are a glorious ruin and
you were made for glorious living by a Glorious God
who has set His heart on you that He may pour out His
love. You have value so much value that God was willing
to move heaven and earth to recapture your heart.
Live it with Passion
Pete Reinbold
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