Why is it that most of us look in the mirror and see nothing but imperfection. Past failure, shortcomings, and hurting people left in our wake?
When I look in the mirror I rarely see anything that resembles Holiness. Righteousness and living Righteously sometimes seems to be just out of reach, an illusion or mirage that is either unattainable or simply not real. 

The things that I desire to do, those are the things I seem not to be able to do, and the things that I don’t want to do seem to be the things I end up doing. (Romans 7:21-25)

Sound familiar to you? Most of us, I think, wrestle with this. As Believers and Christ followers we have higher expectations for ourselves. We want our lives to honor God. We want to live our lives in a way that can point others to Jesus Christ. And yet we often seem to wrestle with the very same things that the world wrestles with.

Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3 declares blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has given us E V E R Y spiritual blessing in the Heavenly places in Christ. Those things that we couldn’t gain for ourselves like Holiness Justification, Sanctification, Redemption, Adoption all of those things are given to us freely in Christ. We couldn’t do anything to get them we can’t do anything to improve upon them or perfect them and nothing we can do can cause us to lose them, because they’re a gift to us from God in Christ. I can come boldly into the throne room enter into the holy of holies not because of my own holiness but because of the fact that I am declared Holy in Christ. That gives me no room for boasting no room for pride or arrogance but thankfulness and a desire to live a life that pleases The God Who created me and took my imperfection and perfected it in Christ so that my eternal Destiny is not dependant upon me but is found to already exist in Him by faith.

When you look next in the mirror, the man you see may not be perfect, but by grace through a personal faith in the completed work of Christ, he is perfected. In Christ you are Holy, Redeemed, Forgiven, Justified, Adopted into Gods own family and joint heirs with Jesus Himself. 

Somehow knowing that has helped me live my life in this corrupt flesh a little easier. 

Focused on who God says I am in Christ and intentionally living my life out of that truth gives me the ability to over come the lies of the enemy, who is constantly attempting to deceive me into believing that I am something less than God says I am….It will help you as well…Jesus loves you and so do I

BE A MAN AFTER GODS OWN HEART…BE A MAN LIKE DAVID.

If we are truly honest and transparent with ourselves, each of us simply knows; I dont know how we know, but we know that we are a smaller piece of something bigger.

You can try to deny it, but every man that I do ministry with, as well as men, who have been broken, and come face to face with what has wounded them or caused their pain, and come to themselves, inevitably recognize this truth. Honestly seeking this truth, maybe for the first time, drives them to seek after God. This is not merely curiosity. It is the thing that drives curiosity.

The driving force behind the Scientist is also a result of this need we have for knowing where we fit in the bigger picture, Even those who do not consider themselves persons of faith, are driven to seek out this truth. What is the true story? Where do I really come from? Why am I unique, What makes me unique? What role am I destined to fulfill and am I enough to fulfill it. Do I have what it takes? All of this is born in each of us by something unseen and powerful.  Where we take that drive, and what we choose to believe as we go seeking out the truth, will determine our eternal Destiny.

An honest scientist, seeks after the truth without prejudice where ever that truth leads, through a never ending, ever changing hypothisis, that, by the way,  slowly over time continues to line itself up with the Truth of Gods Word.

The Athiest, arrogantly proclaimes THERE IS NO GOD, and limits his definition of the truth to meet his predetermined notion of the truth, thereby making the unfounded and unproven proclamation, (as absolute truth… while at the same time denying the existance of absolute truth); “THERE IS NO GOD”.

I use the word arrogance, not to be judgemental but to accurately describe this line of thinking. Lets be real for a minute. If we could measure the knowledge of the universe, I think we would all agree finding a word to accuratly define that is almost impossible. The knowledge we now posses, after such a brief time of existance on this planet, compared to what is out there could be described like this…taking a thimble and dipping it into the ocean. Therefore, to take such a limited sample of the knowledge available in the universe, and make the absolute declaration, THERE IS NO GOD…is nothing short of arrogant. In fact one could say it takes more faith to make such a statement of belief, than it does to believe in the truth of Gods word.

We are part of something bigger, certainly the existance of God in that picture is at the very least a possibility.  If it is a possibility, is it such a streach to think he would want us to know Him, and if what we read in His word is understood correctly, the desire for us to love Him freely, and to respond to His love for us by giving Him our whole heart in desire of an intimate relationship with Him.

We are part of something bigger and some how we kow it, Something we may not fully understand, something powerful, something that has GOD writtem all over it. May I suggest to you, that if you truly are open to the truth, what ever that may be, then include the idea of seeking that truth in God’s Word.  The scriptures say….seek Him today, while He may yet be found. And that the Lord desires us to seek him in spirit and in truth.

If you truly desire to find your place in the bigger picture, you will only find it at the had of the master of the canvass. But if you honestly seek Him….you will find Him.