Dan Allender talks about how we are glorious ruins: having been made in the image of God - the glorious part, yet fallen and stained by sin - the ruin part. I like that idea because i feel like it encompasses a way for me to handle satan's condemnation assault that he likes to siege on my soul. I can say "no, i'm not a worthless piece a crap, i'm a daughter of Jesus!" and at the same time "well, you're right. I'm not perfect...I'm broken, and messy, and bleeding, and awful, and angry, and selfish...but that's why I need Jesus". It helps me stand in my identity as a follower of Jesus...and as such this dead leaf reminded me of that...the death that is in my flesh, but yet the beauty that God brings out through me.
Monday, December 1, 2008
glorious ruins
Dan Allender talks about how we are glorious ruins: having been made in the image of God - the glorious part, yet fallen and stained by sin - the ruin part. I like that idea because i feel like it encompasses a way for me to handle satan's condemnation assault that he likes to siege on my soul. I can say "no, i'm not a worthless piece a crap, i'm a daughter of Jesus!" and at the same time "well, you're right. I'm not perfect...I'm broken, and messy, and bleeding, and awful, and angry, and selfish...but that's why I need Jesus". It helps me stand in my identity as a follower of Jesus...and as such this dead leaf reminded me of that...the death that is in my flesh, but yet the beauty that God brings out through me.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
glorious ruins
Dan Allender talks about how we are glorious ruins: having been made in the image of God - the glorious part, yet fallen and stained by sin - the ruin part. I like that idea because i feel like it encompasses a way for me to handle satan's condemnation assault that he likes to siege on my soul. I can say "no, i'm not a worthless piece a crap, i'm a daughter of Jesus!" and at the same time "well, you're right. I'm not perfect...I'm broken, and messy, and bleeding, and awful, and angry, and selfish...but that's why I need Jesus". It helps me stand in my identity as a follower of Jesus...and as such this dead leaf reminded me of that...the death that is in my flesh, but yet the beauty that God brings out through me.
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