Daddy's Eyes part 5
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. So isn't it interesting that Noah found GRACE in the eyes of the Lord? When Noah looked God in the face (Jesus is the visible face of the invisible God) he saw what was inside. He saw grace. And mercy. And love. And when you see it... you be it. What's inside, or rather what you BELIEVE is inside, is what comes out. Psalm 36:9 says it like this, "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light." We see it in Him... when we see it in ourselves (and each other). Because He LIVES in us (all of us). Deep calls out to deep, right? In His light we see light. His life is the light of men. Now let me say this about the fountain, "And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely" (Revelation 21:6). It is done. It is finished. Now, on this side of the cross... BECAUSE of the cross... we can drink from the fountain of life FREELY. The price was paid, by Jesus, in full. He did it all so we could get it all. And now we have it all because we have Him. Now we have the light, and we can see clearly. We can see God clearly--our heavenly Father--and we can see ourselves clearly--His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased--and we can see each other clearly--all different parts of the same body. Here's the key though: We don't look AT things. We look INTO things. We don't use grace to sweep "sin" under the rug, but instead we understand that grace obliterated sin. So even when it LOOKS like someone is "a sinner" what we really need to do is see them as the righteousness of God in Christ. Whether THEY know who they are or not. And when we see them that way--when we see the hidden man of the heart, the inner man, the new man... even if He seems to be buried under surface stuff--then we don't have to judge according to appearance. Then we can judge righteous judgment. Instead of saying, "He's a liar, you can't trust him," maybe we can say, "He's learning and growing, just like I am." We're all on the same journey--an everlasting life-long journey into the heart of the matter, which is the heart--but we're all at different points on the journey. If we start with, "Daddy loves me. And He loves you," then we are building on the Rock. But if we start with, "You're a scumbag and unless you do this, this, and this God is going to punish you," then we're kind of starting at the bottom and working our way down. God doesn't see us as sinners, because God already took care of the sin issue. He was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. The works of the devil was lying to us in order to get us to DO in order to BE. We didn't know that we were already like God, because it was dark out and we couldn't see Him. So God said, "Let there be light." And now we know who God is. Now we know who WE are. We are the apple of Daddy's eye. He loves us unconditionally. Not because of what we do, but because of who we are. And because of who HE is. God is love. What else could He do but love us? What else could a Father do but love His Son!