When God looked down at me.
He only saw what could be.
He did not see my weaknesses and my shortcomings.
He did not see the cracks in my character or my earthy desires.
He did not see my rebellion against Him and His will for my life instead.
He saw a child of His that He could direct and shape into a vessel for His love and His work.
He saw someone who He could change with His gentle touch and His guiding eye.
He saw something no one else could see.
He saw the finished me. The one that could be.
That’s not all that God saw when He looked down upon the earth.
He saw you too, not as you are but you as you can be.
Let Him begin to work on your life today so you too can say:
“Look what God made! A new me.”
One day, God looked deep inside of me, deeper than any one else could see.
He saw all of me even where I did not want him to see.
He looked around at what there was to be found.
He found my weaknesses, my fears, my lack of self-esteem, my smallness of thinking and much, much, more.
After looking around, He stopped and said “you will do just fine, you are just what I am looking for”.
What could you possibly want with me? I thought.
He said I want you to become my child, my son, but, I am not worthy, I started to say.
Then He said you are very weak and have many shortcomings, and you are not filled with pride and self, so I can fill up your weaknesses with my power and my love and do much work through you.
All I ask is that you allow me to take charge of your life. To make it into something wonderful so that others may see my amazing love I have for you and for anyone else who will allow me into their life. Because I want to also fill their life with my amazing love.
We know there is a God or at least we are told that there is and we want to believe it.
We need one so much, because this life is hard enough and we do need some help.
Our souls reach out to seek a God yet we feel if we reach too far we will find out He is not there, or that we will be rejected. By Him. Our hearts cry out for help as another disappointment finds its mark.
Believing that God does not care would be more than we could stand.
If He is there, then why do we feel so empty, so all alone?
We not only want Him to be there, but we want Him to be here beside us.
I am sure if He were beside us it would not take any faith and that is what it takes to make us grow in spirit.
I am sure He looks at us with great sadness because of our lack of faith, but He can do no more until we act in faith, and then He increases our efforts to make something happen.
I can fully understand why we do not accept God because of the faith it takes to act.
We are born with a spirit of rebellion, one that says, I can do it by myself. I too have felt that way, so I know how the emptiness feels when I was rejected or succumb to failure.
But please do not let that stop you from lifting up your head and seeking for God because after all is said and done He is all that there is left and somehow your spirit will seek Him out because we are born that way.
Before the blood was dry but just after Jesus was hung upon a cross to die.
A world’s history was changed and a planet’s direction was altered forever.
People on earth would never be the same even though, only a very few knew his name.
Eternity was brought for so many, by the simple act of exchanging his life for all of ours.
We will never fully understand, as we spin through space, what we were given and what was lost on that day.
We cannot truly relate to something that occurred thousands of years ago on our behalf.
Our minds will not stretch far enough for us see that we will really live a different life from the way than we live today.
The gift of life, forgiveness, health, love, protection, blessings and all that we will ever need were given to us on that fateful day and it all happened before the blood was dry.
I rebelled, ran and turned away from God, fearing what He may have in mind for me.
I did not want whatever He had because whatever it was, it wasn’t for me.
From urgings deep within my soul I knew he was after me, but I wasn’t about to give in.
You see I wanted my own life I wanted what I wanted and that was that.
Or so I thought.
After I had ran my course and came to many dead ins God came to me.
He did not chastise me, he did not complain about my rebellion in fact he did not mention anything like that at all.
It was just His presence all around me that I knew I was loved, and He wanted me to become a part of his family one of his children.
What could I say but yes, there is no higher honor than to be ask to become a child of God.
There is nothing to compare to the care and guidance that you will receive from becoming a member of his everlasting family.
You may feel much as I did. You may not want to give in to your soul’s urging to go into God’s outstretched arms for fear of what may be there. But once you let go of your fears and on faith enter into His presence then you too will be glad that you allowed yourself to be captured by His love.