There´s something that has been on my mind lately that I wanted to share with you all..It has to do with how God sees us: the humans.
It´s so easy to get lost in the thought that we are nothing but sinners: Ugly, awfull, dirty sinners!
I want to take this Eastertime to remind ya´ll about what God says about creation, about humans, you, me and everyone out there.
First...
"In the beginning God created heaven and earth....And He sow that it was good!"
"Lets make humanbeing in Our image, in Our likeness. They shall rule over the fish, birds and everything that moves upon the earth....He made them to be man and woman. And He blessed them." Everything was given to human: fruittrees, berries. Greenplants as food for the animals.
"And God sow what He had made and it was more then good!"
Now human had free will. How can you truly love someone without free will? God wanted to love and to be loved by His creation. They needed a choice: One tree in the garden was forbidden: the tree of knowlege.
God said if they ate from it they would surely die.
Lucifer - a fallen angel(another story for another time) in the shape of a snake created lust and confusion in the humans mind by laying to them: "Surely, you will not die! You will become like God!"
We know the story: They ate the fruit, were disobidient to God and He could no longer have them in the garden of Eden. They made a choice to depart from God and His will and now it would no longer be possible for them to have the relationship with God that He wanted - that He had made them for.
God who had given them life had to turn away from them, sin came in and sickness, decise and death came with it.
(They had to start working the earth for food - around 10.000 years ago in the middle-east).
Second...
I love the Cronicles of Narnia! C.S. Lewis telles the story so well:
The wintercold surrounds the land - the law sad that someone had to die for the sin(rebellion, betraial, disobidiense...so on..) Edmunds blood was demanded by the whitewitch.
Then the Lion, Aslan - the son of the King on the other side of the sea - comes and gives his own blood in Edmunds place. The whitewitch rejoices - finaly her enimy is dead! But she did not now of the other law: "He who gives his life for another, being without guilt himself can not be held back by death."
So Aslan awakes and concurs the whitewitch and all of her armies.
The rightiusness of God are both these laws...
Sin needs blood. The humans were thought to sacrefice a lamb, the blood covered for them for a while, then they had to secrefice another one.........Until the ultimate Sacrificial Lamb came.. Jesus Christ chose - out of love for the humans and obidience and love for God His Father - to come to earth, show humans how God saw them, treat them as God would: "Healing the sick and brokenhearted, resurecting the dead, teaching and providing, and at the end: dying on the cross for our sins, giving His blood as the perfect secrifice. (This blood did not just cover our sin like the blood for the normal lamb, but took it all away for ever!)"
"..and he who believes in Him shall have everlasting life."
"Surely He has boren our griefs and carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him as stricken, smitten by God and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
the chastisment for our peace was upon Him.
And by His stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:4-5
Third....finaly:
So... First - created in the image and likeness of God, He said human was "more then good", made to rule and take care of everything on the earth.
Second - Then sin came. What did He do? Came up with a solution!! The blood of Jesus Christ!!
- that means forgiveness and grace for everyone who believes and turnes to Him <3
Finaly, what I wanted to share with you on this beautiful sunny day:
How God sees you as a human:
* Psalm 139 says: God know you, and everyone of the days of your life befor they had even begun. He knows your every thought, longing and desier. He tied you togheter in your mothers womb! You are a masterpice!! A work of art!!
* The Song of Songs says YOU are beautiful, with no flaw, and His most beloved!!
* The Prophet Sefania sais that God rejoices over you with dancing, in His love He will give you rest.
* "I know what thoughts I think of YOU, sais the Lord. Thoughts of future and hope, not of anything bad!"
Okay, if you have accepted the Sacrifice of Jesus - His blood for your sins - then God sees you through Jesus Christ!!
* Rightious, without sin
* Loving and good
* Obidiente and humble
....so on...........
- and He provided for it all for us though we did not deserve it nor exept it -
So a Christians lifelong goal is to become more and more like Jesus Himself.. How??
Learning from what we see Him doing :) Doing what He did to the people around us...
But as Paul sais: "What I want to do I tend not to do, and what I don´t want to do I tend to do.."
Our flesh (selfisness, disobidience...so on...) does not want to do the things that Jesus did..(it hurts the ego.... :P ) That´s why God gave us the power of The Word (the Bible - every spoken word matters so careful what you say ;) - remember God created the world by speaking and we are created in His likeness... -
The power of Holy Spirit for guidence, support and comfort in hardship and much more.
The power of the blood of Jesus that helps us if we fall short :)
God is GOOD!!!
Look at all He has done for us!!!
To think that we matter to Him, the human in the whole marveles universe!!!
He sees us and loves us <3
May your Easter be blessed and may the love and grace of God be showen unto you that you may have life in Him :) :) :)
<3 <3 <3
(Please excuse my language..it´s not always easy finding the right words in English and spelling them correctly then the spellingprogram is not working....)
