Thankful for God’s Point of View — Week 4
By:  Lori Lewis, State Girls Clubs Coordinator, South Carolina

Scripture:  “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8, 9).

One day my daughter Sara (then three years old) and I were walking on the beach collecting sea shells.  I was looking for those perfect ones—no breaks, cracks or holes but smooth and beautifully formed.  Sara started helping me and brought a variety of not so perfect shells.  I asked her, “Don’t you want to find the ones like these?” showing her the “perfect ones.”  

She replied, “No, I like these.  They’re the prettiest.”  All different shapes and sizes, some only fragments, others looked more like rock than shell and none perfect.  Interesting.  At that moment, I took notice of what the Lord was showing me through a child’s eyes.  Not everything has to be perfect, smooth or beautiful.  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

Jesus tells us in Mark 10 that we must come as a little child in order to enter the kingdom of God.  Children see things differently from adults.  They’re innocent and full of faith.  They see the beauty in simple things that often allude us.

Aren’t you glad the Lord doesn’t receive only the “perfect, beautiful ones”?  He takes us as we are:  holes, fragments, imperfections, warts and all!  I’m so glad He loves us unconditionally! 

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