Beauty from the Broken

God takes the broken and makes it beautiful.

“I know not what He is about to do with me,

but I have given myself entirely into His hands.”

-Catherine Booth

I find myself in this place pretty often. It's such a good place to be in. It's a state that causes complete dependency and passion upon Christ and distracts me from me. I truly wish I could be in this state at all times but there is a part of me that is so human that I just can't get past myself. I tend to foolishly believe that I know what God is doing in and through me, this implies that I am even the slightest bit as wise as God in my own mind (pretty foolish right?).

This 'state' is also where I feel most at home. I suppose that's only because God has made us to depend on Him so wholly. I like to also believe that He has made us for adventure, excitement, and passion. Focused on the right point (Jesus) these things bring more glory to God than we could ever know. Focused on the wrong point (ourselves most of the time) destruction is surely around the corner. It really makes me think. Our society has made the focus of our lives ourselves...and look where we are today. Maybe if we stopped telling ourselves WE'RE good people and that WE can go and do great things and realize that only God is good and only God do great things, we would be so humbled to let Him move.

I feel so challenged the last while to really allow humility be who I am...I have no idea how this looks or what God is going to do to show me this but I do know that it is something only He can do in me. What a prideful to statement to say, "I am working on walking in humility," (I only say that because I almost just wrote it), God is the only one who truly understands humility and who can actually show us what humility is.

TRUST. I think I need to have a big painting of that word on my wall to remind me every morning to trustfully lay my life in God's hands. Today is unlike any day I have lived and if I tried to form it in my own hands it wouldn't be near as beautiful as if God did. When I think about it, I see my day as taking a pile of clay and attempting a masterpiece but ending with the same pile as what I started with (maybe worse) when God could have made a full masterpiece with the most beautiful detail that would only enhance what He has done and what is yet to come. Why would I choose to keep a pile when there's a sculpture waiting to be formed?

Oh, Glory!

God is beauty.

On my way to the airport from Golf Shores, AL Candice and I were amazed by the fog that was resting on the ocean. God's glory truly rests in His creation.

Stop and enjoy His creation today. (Don't forget, you're His creation too.)