January 23, 2011
4 people have broken down and cried in front of me this week. Yes, gentlemen, they just so happen to be women.
What is God trying to tell me? Behind issues, problems, annoyances, situations, misunderstandings, behind sin, there are people. There are people who sometimes cause the problem, but are broken by it. In some of these situations, people have seen things wrongly, have been wrong, or have been wronged, no matter what is the reason for their brokenness, it still doesn't erase the fact that they are broken.
These are people with emotions, hearts, & most of all, souls-that are so tender, so precious & so beautiful. If only I could look at all humanity like I do when people cry. God loves it when we are vulnerable, weak, broken-when we admit to all these things, we admit to being human. I am convinced that God is in love with His creation-He loves us, that's why He saved us-He loves humans.
I think because humans in their true, authentic, vulnerable state are profoundly beautiful. God sees us for what we really are & the bare, naked human soul is something so beautiful, made in the likeness & image of God. That is why we are beautiful because we are like God, beauty has to come from the source of Beauty, God.
God has gone to great lengths to restore what's been marred, remake what's been destroyed & the truth is Christians, although broken, are deeply, holy beautiful. Because God is in this. We don't see the whole thing, I don't see the whole picture, but the fact that God comes to meet us here in our brokenness, despite our brokenness making things beautiful, this is what Christ does, and it is such a miracle that God would want to do this. All this, God meeting us with His Emmanuel presence to make us beautiful, makes it all exceedingly more beautiful, more glorious (2 Corinthians 4).
"Like a statue in a park of this war torn town
& its protest of the darkness & its chaos all around
with its beauty, how it matters, how it matters" -Sara Groves
Maybe this is why God has chosen to tell His love story in this way, with fallen man & sin, because only amidst the ashes can something be seen as immeasurably & starkingly beautiful.
Contrasted against the dark night sky, the stars glitter beautifully more so than in the daytime. Someone, God, made it this way intentionally. God uses sin, hurt, brokenness as a backdrop for beauty, redemption, & love to be the center point, to make all these stand out, to spell out His name. And just like the stars, our lives will "declare the Glory of God & show His handiwork." Psalm 19:1
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