Saturday, 11 September 2010

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I was at this breakfast recently and saw this poster for a preaching series:  "How to look good naked?"
At the time I was thinking about the threat that Christians use against each other:  "What if people saw you for who you really are?"  In other words: people seeing you with all your hidden sins exposed.

No one likes the thought of that.  We all carry sins we're not proud of.
(Lust, pride, greed, jealousy, malice, slander, malicious, anger & prejudice)

But I had a profound peace in view of that.  If all was stripped away, would God just see my sin?
NO! Because my sin is not who I am either.
If all were to be stripped away, my sin would be stripped away too.

And what would be left... would be who God made; and what He really sees.
We have been made in the image of our Creator. (See Genesis)

At our best we are: beautiful, compassionate, loving, creative, passionate, purposed, strong, profound, goodness and so much more. 

At the heart of that matter; God knows that in the wellspring of your heart there is beauty, passion and potential.
Don't forget that!

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