Ding ding ding ding ding! I LOVE it when the lightbulb goes off and I feel like I got it......you know, that something special that suddenly becomes real in your mind. It can be something you've heard or been taught a gazillion times but for some reason (which usually calculates into such-a-time-as-this) your GET it right now. Yep, this morning I had a bright light moment!
In Christian circles we are taught these really wonderful self-worth verses that go like this:
"I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Psalm 139:14a.
"For we are His workmanship [masterpiece] created......." Ephesians 2:10a.
I love these verses. But today they lept at me from the words of another passage that was the lightbulb.
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made....." Romans 1:18-20a.
Let me put this all together. What does wrath--which indicates being really REALLY angry, have to do with the pretty little self-esteem verses? God's fierce reaction to our misunderstanding of our purpose. He made us wonderful! He made us a masterpiece! He created. US. Because we are what He shows Himself off in! We have all of the love and compassion and reality of a gracious God that the world expects. That is true. But it does NOT say anywhere in the Bible that God will not get frustrated with us. And what frustrates Him to the point of wrath? That we do not live as His wonderful masterpiece that He created us to be, and that we do not show off His invisible attributes that He makes clearly visible in us. He manifests who He is through us. When we don't live like that, it becomes an act of unrighteousness (that means sin because its less than He made us to be) because we are suppressing the truth, the fact, that we are created to be Him to the world.
It is an act of ungodliness to self-bash, to talk down about ourselves, to self-deprecate. It is a lie, because it clearly says we are suppressing the truth because He is showing Himself in us. Are we perfect? NO. But we are a work in progress. Clay in the Potter's hand. Working, re-working. Becoming a beautiful vessel for Him to dwell in. And pour out of. But we are responsible for making Him look good. And when we say we aren't good enough, we are saying He isn't good enough. And HE IS. Christ in you. His glory. Chin up, Wilbur. He sees what He is doing and He says its good. It's very good. Be that today. Show Him off. He finds you fabulous.
In Christian circles we are taught these really wonderful self-worth verses that go like this:
"I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Psalm 139:14a.
"For we are His workmanship [masterpiece] created......." Ephesians 2:10a.
I love these verses. But today they lept at me from the words of another passage that was the lightbulb.
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made....." Romans 1:18-20a.
Let me put this all together. What does wrath--which indicates being really REALLY angry, have to do with the pretty little self-esteem verses? God's fierce reaction to our misunderstanding of our purpose. He made us wonderful! He made us a masterpiece! He created. US. Because we are what He shows Himself off in! We have all of the love and compassion and reality of a gracious God that the world expects. That is true. But it does NOT say anywhere in the Bible that God will not get frustrated with us. And what frustrates Him to the point of wrath? That we do not live as His wonderful masterpiece that He created us to be, and that we do not show off His invisible attributes that He makes clearly visible in us. He manifests who He is through us. When we don't live like that, it becomes an act of unrighteousness (that means sin because its less than He made us to be) because we are suppressing the truth, the fact, that we are created to be Him to the world.
It is an act of ungodliness to self-bash, to talk down about ourselves, to self-deprecate. It is a lie, because it clearly says we are suppressing the truth because He is showing Himself in us. Are we perfect? NO. But we are a work in progress. Clay in the Potter's hand. Working, re-working. Becoming a beautiful vessel for Him to dwell in. And pour out of. But we are responsible for making Him look good. And when we say we aren't good enough, we are saying He isn't good enough. And HE IS. Christ in you. His glory. Chin up, Wilbur. He sees what He is doing and He says its good. It's very good. Be that today. Show Him off. He finds you fabulous.
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