2:1 [10.4.2006]

2 thoughts 1 point:
Oswald Chambers said, "Thank God for being able to see all that you have not yet been. You have had the vision, but you are not yet to the reality of it by any means."

Oswald Chambers scored those words many years ago and like many of the fathers of our faith, they thought deeply about their reality - their human condition. The human condition is one thing, but your human condition is another layer to the equation. Right?

Shakespeare said, "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

Was Shakespeare a prophet or just a creative person who had eyes that could see the human soul? It makes sense that the more truthful we are with ourselves and who we really are, that we will be more truthful with others. Truth beget trust, trust beget love. Love is eternal. Eternal is the treasure, Jesus.

point: God sees more in you than you see in yourself and He desperately wants you to see that reality of who you really are. Embrace the reality, that you (and your life in God) is the answer to someone's question. Pray that God will show you this reality. "The creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed." (from Paul's letter to the Romans - TNIV)