Thoughts From My Journal

I'm so not as on top of this blog thing as I would like. I actually have about 3 updates going on in my head right now that I need to sit down and write out, but I guess you'll just have to wait for those now won't you. :)


The yesterday I was sitting at my kitchen table after breakfast doing something that I now can't remember what (learning language maybe??) when I got this urge to write in my journal. Not my pr@yer journal, but my journal where I write down my thoughts and adventures of the day. So, not the usual time to be writing in this journal. This is what came out:


I am SO my Father’s daughter.

            -Today I am working from home

-But I will most likely venture out at some point just to be around people (and I did get out to meet someone and walked back to my apartment just so I could be with people- see their faces, interact with them.)

            -I love to joke and laugh

            -And work hard

            -And serve those I love

-Where he would have a big cup of diet coke at his side while working, I have cup of tea (mainly because diet coke is very scarce here and expensive since it is imported. Not to mention that I love coffee-especially this starbucks instant coffee I had today instead of nescafé- and tea is soothing to this cold I have, but I digress…)

I am my Father’s daughter.

Oh, but I am my Mother’s daughter.

            -I have her eyes

            -I have her cheekbones

            -I have her laugh

            -I have her compassion

           

I am my Father’s daughter

I am my Mother’s daughter

And I am uniquely and definitively me.

How fascinating and beautiful it is that my creator would knit me together the way He did- physically and personality! (Check out Psalm 139 if you don’t believe me). And it is all in His sovereignty.:

In His sovereignty He fashioned me after my father. In His sovereignty He fashioned me after my mother. In His sovereignty He made me distinctly me. And through this, I am fashioned after HIM, for above all else, I have been made in HIS image. For His glory.

It amazes me how from two people can come the 4 so similar yet unique individuals that my brother, sisters, and I are. And all of it is His image. Wow. How BIG, how VAST, how GREAT and MIGHTY is our God! Oh, praise Him!

Now, think about the body of Christ. How beautiful it is that you and I, who probably have similarities, but definitely have differences- different physical appearances, likes, dislikes, passions, gifts, talents, and abilities- and we are both fashioned in His image. Not only that, but we fit together and work together as the body!  You may be thinking how this is such a basic idea, we’ve been told it for a long time now. But the reality of it sank in for me today. If we are ALL made in His image; how GREAT is He that we could be so diverse and unique and all in His image. It blows my mind.