When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Are you even able to look at your own reflection?
The older we get, the more we tally up the things that we have said or done that we would rather have forgotten. Just like when we look in the mirror, we have a natural tendency to look at what is wrong with our physical appearance, when we take an honest look at ourselves, we don't always like what we see.
Yet when God looks at us, he doesn't see any of that. Those of us who have accepted the free gift his of his son, Jesus Christ, are no longer seen as we deserve.
We are seen as we wish we could be. We are holy and blameless in God's sight, as a result of what Jesus did for us.
Take a moment to truly grasp that. All our our deeds are not only forgiven, but forgotten. As Paul tells us,
"Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault." Col 1:22 (NLT)
How can we not be grateful? How can we not thank him in praise for such a gift?
For when we stand before God, in Christ we are seen for who we always dreamt we could be.
