“This is beauty and this is ALL for you”
The moment we were flying over the Dominican, those were the very first words I heard Him speak to me. That this is His creation, His beauty before my eyes: it’s for me to experience, it’s for me to dive into head first, and it’s for me to grab ahold of.
Yet, getting out of the airplane and stepping into the airport, trying to find our way through masses of people that i could not understand, I was far from taking time to see beauty around me.
The drive to our ministry host home – “Hope for the DR” – was definitely a process. Finally arriving well past dark, I was exhausted; only to awaken the next morning, on top of a mountain, seeing nothing but beauty all around me.
Quickly remembering WHO this is all about.
My team worked with five other teams this month. Our first week of ministry was door-to-door evangelism. Jumping into it, faster than expected, more excited than nervous, soon to realize God’s heart for His children is more than simply wanting them to accept a truth. I believe Jesus wants to touch hearts. He wants to sit with His children. He wants to listen to His children. He wants to heal His children, not only physically but emotionally and spiritually.
Ya there was healing and lives touches…PRAISE Jesus for that. But through the process, it was about a lot more than that. He wasn’t only interested in using me, He wanted to transform the eyes of my heart in the process.
To look into the eyes of His children and see His most precious creation. To look into the eyes of His child and see the one He loves outrageously. To look into the eyes of His child and see that which is BEAUTIFUL.
“I’ll ned my own transfiguration to enter a kingdom where the Prince is born into a manure – smeared feed trough, where a Holy God touches leper sores, breaks bread with cheats, where God wounds Himself through with nails on a cross and we wear the symbol as beauty.”
I dont believe there can be anything in this world that is truly ugly.
Just as if to remind me…”this is Beauty and it is all for you.”
