See yourself as I see you

Psalm 89:17

"Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside us"

This one sentence wrecked me as I read it this morning. What a statement! God's vibrant beauty has gotten inside YOU and ME! ALL that beauty we see in God (and are yet to see) now dwells on the inside of us!

Just think of the beauty to see in the Lord; the way he moves, the way he speaks, the way he treats others, the way he reacts, the grace he constantly extends, the way he forgives, the way he encourages and builds others up, the way he always sees the treasure in us, his patience, his tender touch, his gentle kiss, his faithfulness, his deep loving eyes, his passion, his peace, his gentleness. All of this that we recognise as his beauty and oh SO much more now dwells on the inside of us! How dare I view myself as anything less that I truly am!

Jesus didn't die for us to dwell within us just for us to see ourselves as "ugly people". That is a total devaluation of the blood that was poured out for us!

We are to see ourselves in all the beauty that the Father sees his Son - for just as he is so are we, now, in this world (see 1 John 4:17). As I write this I am reminded of one of my own songs called 'My child'. The father sings over us in the second verse;

"Oh how I long for the day you see yourself as I see you, my treasure, my child my beautiful child, you are perfect to me"

The Father isn't seeing us in our 'ugliness' but through the blood of His Son. This isn't something we are trying to obtain through discipline. It doesn't say 'just as he is so we have the potential to be'. No, it says just as he is so are we now! It is our reality ... Right now! If we are living as anything less then we are living out of our old nature ... That dead man. It's time to stop attaching ourselves to a corpse! Shake it off and embrace who you really are!