Thursday, April 8, 2021
Seeing Our True Selves
We Can Fear God’s Wrath
Or
Know God’s Grace
Genesis 3:9-10
But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, ‘Where are you?’ He said, ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.’
Hebrews 4:13
Before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account.
Words of Grace For Today
The truth can bite.
God knows all the truth about us, all the little and big lies we try to live and force on others, all the deception that we pass off as truth.
It is something to know one is ‘naked’ before God, exposed, fully known, it is something terrifying …
unless –
…
unless one knows ones’ self very well,
unless one knows one’s self so well, or at least well enough, to be honest about one’s own ‘naked’ truth – of how broken one really is,
unless one knows God to be gracious and unconditionally loving and forgiving, willing to give even God’s own life that we may live,
then
well then knowing God knows one’s self as well as one knows one’s self, and even better, indeed knowing God knows us all perfectly is
a
great blessing and reassurance that
all will be well.
Even when the waters of hell and chaos surround one and our own turn against us, we know that God is faithful, gracious, loving, forgiving and life-giving.
Which means we can be the same toward ourselves and all other people.