Beautiful

I was recently on the coast of California. For a solid week, I woke up to the sound of ocean waves crashing against the rocks. One day I got up really early and went to the end of the pier. I sat there and watched the horizon as the sun slowly started to appear. The light hit my eyes and I just took in the spectrum of wonder. It was an incredible sight to witness. I remember thinking, "how could something so spectacular happen everyday, but people miss it and take it for granted?"

The sunrise on the Pacific was a great sight to say the least. So beautiful. But something else takes precedence here. The fact that our Father God created us all in His likeness and in His image. Spectacular? You bet. Even more than that, Jesus came to this earth and died for us. He was beaten for our healing, He died for our sins so that we could be saved. How beautiful!

We all have our life's problems we face everyday. Things happen and we don't have control over them. We have those things that we even try to hide from everyone else. But the great thing is that we have one we can run to and be made free from all of our problems.

Jesus came to this earth and died for you and me. What is more beautiful than that? Here's the thing... We are made in the image and likeness of God. So with Him living in us, we too are beautiful. Despite what others try to tell you to tear you down and make you feel like you're nothing, you are God's child, His creation. You and everything you do can be beautiful in Him... and let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish the work of our hands (Ps 90:17). That lets me know that we have the beauty of our Creator and it can come out in our lives.

Whatever your situation, no matter what people try to tell you, you are made in the image of God. Despite what you've done in your past, the ugliness and the horror of those things that used to be have been washed away by His blood. The darkest of nights disappear when He comes in the picture. He made you beautiful. Rise above those things that try to keep you down. Come out of your situation and let God see what a beautiful thing He made when He made you.

J.H