The Lord keeps speaking to me about being Jesus with skin
on.
How that keeps us humble: we know it’s not our own work.
How it keeps us dependent: we’ve faced our weaknesses and
insecurities and still we rush in to do His work, knowing that despite our frailty
(which we know so well) He will use us, He will honor His Word and come
through.
How it keeps us close, we let Him do the work, we just
listen and move as He gently guides.
Sometimes I’m the worst skin to be in: I get afraid and back
out right before a conversation goes to that life giving topic of the Son of
Man, I walk away when someone asks me to stay (this happened just last
weekend), I give up. God asks me to move forward just a little more, get a
little closer to other people, let myself love and be loved in return.
I shy away.
But He won’t give up—on me or any one of us who He calls
forth and makes into His life-giving people (which is all of us!). We will be
Him with skin on: flawed, imperfect but still His. Still being molded, changed
with the great destiny, the biggest picture rising forth in front of Him
keeping Him hot on our heels and us on His. The day is coming when we will be
truly shone forth as all that we are, all that He has been perfecting since He
began this crazy beautiful journey in His name! And the praise He will receive
on that day! (And all the days in between, as we journey home.) He knows He’s
worth it.
And we’re worth it. As I was driving home praying through a
word I received this weekend, God showed me a picture and spoke to me,
proclaiming into me all that I am not now—but I can see it peeking through. I
will be—one day and now as I move forward in hope, trusting Him to do the
work—one who enters fully in everywhere she goes, so content in Him and His
promises that I can be fully satisfied and safe in Him and draw others close in
every nation through that life changing love poured forth.
It’s what He sees for all of us, wherever He hand plants
each of us. We are all the beauty of His heart, the flower garden in His care,
the magnificient masterpiece being perfected into His image.
Let Him do His work in you today, no matter what you know
about you—He knows better.
We will all be Jesus with skin on—Halllelujah!
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