Tuesday, December 15, 2009

the love of [God]




One who is loved by a beautiful other may look at the other person and feel unworthy of their love, insecure and unsettled within by knowing who they truly are and seeing themself with eyes that compare with others and expose every flaw, no matter how small. This person may think, "How could someone so high above me love something like me? They surely are only pretending to love me for a time, soon enough they will grow tired of me, realize that I can never be worthy of them and pass over me for a creature of beauty far beyond my compare."
this is humanity
So we are with God. We see His infinite beauty and are rightly humbled in ourselves. We know who we truly are and can see it with an eye that critiques and searches to the recesses of ourselves. We gauge our wickedness and unworthiness rightly, [but God] who has seen us far before we were a thought, or our parents existed, or the worlds were formed, although He sees us with an eye far more astute than ours, knowing all our sins, and He knew we were ugly and fallen and broken and dead, but because of His son, our perfect great lamb, we are to Him,

   Righteous. Clean. Lovely. 
   Sinless. Whole. Restored.
       and Beautiful.
      [He sees Christ]

And that is all the fitness He requires.
Just to see our need of Him.
And we are loved with
everlasting 
love unchanging,
never ending, never failing.
Who we are in Christ
is all we really ARE