This Day
This day started with this:
“This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24
Somewhere in the middle, came this:
“Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can’t go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.” Romans 13:8
Also came the understanding that I am who I am for a reason, for His purpose. My passions and giftings are needed. I no longer want to feel bad about that nor do I want to defend it. Doubts still tend to come, but not until recently have I felt the freedom to be completely who I am without regret. I’m sure this sounds like a dramatization but, on this day, for me it is a realization.
A new chapter in my life is on the horizon. A clear picture is not yet available. And sometimes in the waiting comes the doubts. Blessedly, I have people who believe in me. They encourage me to see the possibilities, to believe in my worth. More than that, I have the dawning of the truth that my worth lies in being His creation.
And so on this day, the sun sets with this:
16-20Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you. (1 Corinthians 5, from The Message)
And physically appeared like this:
