”A rose is a rose is a rose.” Indeed. Most of
the things in creation are obvious in their function…a rose is its scent, a
lion is its kingly roar, a butterfly is exquisite gracefulness, an orange—that
orb of juicy wonder. But what is a
human?
Only a human, titled “crown of God’s creation,” is a breed
of diversity. Humans are a bundle
of wide variety…sculptor, engineer, teacher, nurse, chef, dancer, chemist. And those, obviously, are only the tip
of the iceberg of what work a human could be engaged in.
We are the only species that captures the breadth of what
was going on in the enthusiastic mind of God as He allowed one single part of
His creation to have such an array of gifts for what He wanted to accomplish
and enjoy. We ARE the art that He
hangs on His Holy fridge in a kitchen that is buzzing in preparation for the
feast to come. Only humans
would have the potential to bless (or curse), to help (or hinder), to love (or
hate) because He determined that a free will was also to be bequeathed to us as
a core part of our design. Only
mankind has such a span of emotions and expressions and abilities that take us
to a depth unseen in any other parts of the creation.
He was so intrigued by all the possibilities of what could
happen if someone decided they would take a chance of being a God-infused
person, to see what could occur if we accepted the invitation to believe Him
and let Him come in so fully that He could orchestrate His ideas in and through
that individual. Of course only
His Son could keep His attention on the mission fully enough to pull off a
whole life of such robust living, but Jesus modeled for us what it could look
like. He fulfilled His opportunity
perfectly, and one has to wonder what He might still want to do through us,
stumbling though we go through our lives?
When He thought of you, He had some wonderful things in
mind. He was smiling as He
envisioned what “YOU” meant for the world. He foresaw a whole specter of ways that your unique gifts
could speak something wonderful as He planned the time and place of your
arrival to the planet. There is no other designer who waits for the willingness of the objects of His delight to
decide to be the materials of the masterpiece. He is waiting for you, with more hope of the possibilities
than disappointment in any of your past failures, for some of us to take a
chance and find out what in the world He has in mind.
Our fear hinders us.
Our own plans screech us to a halt from seeing far better plans
unfold. Our wounds get bandaged
instead of healed. But we still
have a chance. This morning when
dawn broke onto us again, it came as a new invitation to give it a chance. We can conquer our fears by facing
them. We can yield our plans to
His. We can stop licking our
wounds and invest our aching bodies into small acts of giving and watch
ourselves become healthy in the process.
Today, it is all there before you.
Go get it.
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