My Aunt Ethel had a printed quote hanging in her kitchen window. It said: “God sees us as we can be, but loves us as we are.”
Moses said he was, ‘slow of speech-Oh my Lord, send I pray, some other person,’ Paul said, ‘I know that nothing good lives in me.’
Simon, the fisherman was impulsive, arrogant, self-centered and unfaithful. When Jesus saw him, he looked beyond the mere exterior of this crude fisherman and saw there the picture of a man of vast undeveloped resources.
God calls and does not ask it we are suitable……….only if we are available.
One of the greatest parts of our Lord’s ministry was spent in dealing with men such as these. He seemed to have the ability to look beyond the mere exterior of a person and bring forth the best that was within.
Jesus told Moses: “ I will appoint Aaron to be your spokesman.” He wanted him to be the leader of Israel. How well God knew his potentialities.
To change the actual “Thou Art’ into the ideal ‘ Thou shall be,’ is the high function of Jesus Christ. Regardless of our age or station in life, there are unlimited possibilities of what we may become, if we let God do the leading and the developing.
Just as a green shoot becomes a blooming flower, we too can be transformed into effective Christian living. He understands our inadequacies . He knows us as we are, but he knows what we can become.
New Life
As I look out my window day by day.
I see changes take place, Nature may
Bring forth a green shoot where once
The ground was bare - no life was found.
The sun caresses the tender sprout
I patiently wait and look all about
As it grows taller, I see quite near
Another green shoot and another appear.
Anxiously I wait now with interest anew
As the blooms unfold in glorious hue.
Yesterday a place that did annoy
Today is beauty for all to enjoy.
Wilhelmine
3 comments:
you ought to be a teacher - or a presbyterian preacher
much learning could be gleened from your words
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