I had the most amazing image cross my mind this morning and I couldn't help but share it with some of you. I'll try my best to paint this picture, but I know my words will fail to portray exactly what I'm thinking or what I saw.
I'm just standing there, not anywhere in particular, just standing by myself. I'm completely covered in blood and there are pieces of me missing - these huge gaping holes all throughout my body - almost like puzzle pieces missing from the whole picture. But then I see Jesus standing behind me - this bright shining silhouette - and I start to see that light not only shining through those missing pieces, but all around me.
I know that sounds kind of crazy/gruesome/weird/etc...but let me explain. I'm broken and wounded, but it's not my blood that justifies those wounds, I'm covered in HIS blood. He fills those broken and barren places in my life, making me whole again, and then uses them to shine through me and show His glory and power, but it's not just in those missing pieces that He is shining through - I am completely enveloped in His glory and light...so much so that the edges of my body are blurred to the point that I can no longer be identified as a separate individual, but more so a part of Him...if that makes sense! It's actually a really simple picture when you think about it, but I needed to be reminded that my purpose here on this earth is simply to glorify God...no matter what my past has held, how hurt i've been, or how wounded I might be. These pieces and things that have been missing or broken in my life are now being restored through Him. He has broken these chains and is making me new...and I absolutely LOVE it! It's hard and it hurts like crazy at times, but I know my God is there and is molding and shaping me into the person He has always intended for me to be.
Ephesians 3:17-19
"Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God." NLT
Hebrews 10:19-23
"And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise." NLT
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