I have a bracelet that delights me! Just looking at it makes me smile! It is a beautiful, delicate, exquisite slide bracelet, antique, probably Edwardian, with TINY sets of seed pearls, opals, garnets, and a tiny ruby and sapphire. The unmarked metal looks like rose gold, with carving and enamel, too. The fine craftsmanship calls out to my artist's heart. I am blessed to own such a pretty piece. Even so, I know it is only a thing, a bauble. It can be lost or damaged.
As much as I am delighted by its earthly beauty, I am struck by an analogy:
The LORD delights in me! I absolutely don't understand why He does, for I know what I am: a flawed woman with failings, regrets, and many sins. Yet in the LORD's eyes, I am more beautiful, priceless, and exquisitely unique than any jewel. in fact, I am the apple of His eye!
I don't understand it, and I so want to believe it, but it is so very difficult to see myself as the LORD does.
Dear LORD, please open my heart more fully to your love. Let me look into a mirror, and see what you see: the one you know and still love, have created and refined in the fire, carved with your hand, and set with gifts, as with precious stones. Show me how to delight in you, as you delight in me. And help my unbelief. Thank you.
Love,
Cindy
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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