I have a good friend who, probably, most people would consider to be a difficult - maybe 'challenging' is a better word - person to deal with. Alot of people misunderstand this person, I think, but you know what? God doesn't. God knows us just as we are and says to all of us - for we are all, by nature, difficult, challenging, sinful, me-first people - 'I made you. I love you. In my Son, Jesus, I have redeemed you. Come to me just as you are and I will make you into all that I intended you to be.' C. S. Lewis puts it this way:

"Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you. The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key; and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. For it is not humanity in the abstract that is to be saved, but you - you . . . the individual. Blessed and fortunate creature, your eyes shall behold Him . . . Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

Posted by Steve Mounts at 10:09 AM

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