I had a something strange happen to me the other night... I got home at midnight and found all one hundred and forty square feet of my house smelling like my trash. So I promptly took my lovely mix of gross and eww to the dumpster and then I saw my house. Now that's not so strange, actually that shows to be good thing seeing that no one had taken my home while I was taking out the trash (when your home is on wheels and has an engine you wonder if your house is going to be driven away by someone who thinks it is a tank with a couch in it), what was strange is I had the enlightening thought "holy crap I live in that?" Now I've been there for almost two months, you'd think I would have not have thought that like it was a new thing. You would think I would be think that pretty frequently. Yet that night I saw the real state of my home.
It is kinda like when we first see our sin; we have lived in it for years... yet we have never seen the absurdity of it all. We never saw it in a true light. Much like I had never looked at my house that I way, we never see our sin for what it really is until it is compared with the greatness of God, and how it really has made him mad. When we view of God's wrath, the beauty of Jesus dieing for you and me gets even prettier. It is a like a snowflake on a black surface, the details of it are brought forth.When we forget about the wrath of God, we are taking away the background of a beautiful work of art.
Lord help us see the full picture of your love for us in Christ's life, death, and resurrection. Thank you for showing love to us when we deserved wrath, the hell of hells, yet you forgive us... and give us the love of love from you, who is the Lord of lords. Thank you Jesus for your awesome grace, your awesome power, and your awesomeness. You truly are the most beautiful, the most lovely savior of the world. Holy spirit teach us in the word how to see you everyday, help us glorify God in all that we say, think and do. In the name of Jesus Amen
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