Devotional

05/21/2007

When you love someone you want to see them and touch them.
It’s the same with the loving the Lord.
Sometimes I wish He would appear to me.

I did see Him in dreams and lately in a vision, but only part of His face was revealed to me. But I want to see Him in reality and touch Him, tell Him face to face that I love Him and that I’m grateful for all that He’s done for me.

As I was wondering what He really looked like once, I thought about how different He really was from us. I considered Him to be an alien and wondered how I could perceive Him and not be afraid. I had to get used to Him I thought. But I decided that I loved Him no matter how alien He might be to me.
Still I felt a little bit restless.

God took my restlessness away a few days ago. I was reading the bible and I read that He made us in His image. I read it so many times before, but this time the Holy Spirit opened my mind and let me understand that He’s not an alien at all.

I was made in His image, He’s not supposed to be a stranger to me.
I came from Him, I was made to look like Him.
Only because we were alienated through sin, He became a stranger to us.

He has to renew our minds through His Word so we can get used to Him again and be like He is. That’s where we came from, He’s our original image.
We’re like messed up copies.

But the blood of Jesus washes all our impurities away and we become exactly like our original image again, like God our heavenly Father.

I was so relieved to know this, He’s not a stranger to me, He’s my source of life.
He’s your source of life also.

Do you want to be the best you can be, then let Him change you into His image.
The image of love!

Love, Monique