The creativity of God is mind-blowing! Were able to blow up that picture you’d notice the ‘hairs’ on its legs and a funky looking stump at the end of each foot and a host of other incredible details. It was crazy cool to see.
But I guess life is all about perspective. While a group of us were admiring this creature, I heard a boy in the background say excitedly, “let me squish it.” Boys will be boys, I guess. So, while some of us thought the bug was amazing, others thought it wasn’t worth much.
Think about yourself for a moment and let’s do a quick exercise… put your cellphone on camera mode and take a selfie. Do you see your amazing self in that picture?
I can understand if you don’t call what you see in that picture of yourself ‘AMAZING.’ But you should know that there’s absolutely no shame in seeing the awesome side of you.
I remember hearing a motivational speaker tell the audience to look at themselves in the mirror, point at their reflection, and say, “You’re great; I believe in you.” Would you have done that?
What if I told you that when God sees you He smiles and says, “I think you’re incredible!” Of course I know that God is different than us but the essence of what I’m thinking is described in one particular place in the Bible. Check it out,
“Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it… how precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!” Psalm 139: 14, 17 NLT
It’s like God pointing at you and saying, “You da man” or “You da woman!” And the passage leads us to believe that God has you (and me) in His mind so often that it would be impossible to number the times.
I don’t know about you but I don’t waste much time thinking about irrelevant or worthless things. We keep our minds on those subjects or people or dreams we like.
Have you ever had the lyrics of a song stuck in your head? You keep humming the tune or repeating the same lyric again and again. That’s God with each of us.
In 1982 Willie Nelson released a hit song called, Always On My Mind. It’s a song about someone regretting not showing love to a certain special person in his/her life. The chorus went like this, “You were always on my mind.”
Will you consider believing the next statement I’m going to write? Ready? Here it is: You are always on God’s mind. But He won’t stop there. The Lord will show you again and again and again how much He cares for you and loves you.
The way to make the best of you possible starts with accepting the Truth that you were created in God’s image and for His purpose!
Some think they’re too short or too tall or too fat or too skinny or too ugly or too stupid or way too far ‘gone’ in life to be any good to anyone but that’s a lie coming straight out of the pit of hell itself. You are so worth it and AMAZING to your Father in heaven that He was willing to send His only Son to die for your sins! That’s what last weekend’s Easter celebration was all about.
Only God can make a masterpiece out of whatever mess you may see in the mirror. The best you starts with Him!!
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