ABC's of Advent
D is for Dressed.
All the way back we rewind the story from where we stand. Exposure with shame started in the most beautiful place any natural eyes could behold. A perfect place. Created for souls made in the image of God. People whom God saw and said it is very good. It was in this perfect place that eyes were opened. Where all that was beheld was good and true, evil slithered in and through contemplating the unseen with evil itself, a veil was formed. Evil corruption in every sense transaction of heart, soul, and mind.
The worse of all...naked exposure. What God had formed to be the most beautiful of all creation was corrupted by one feeling. Shame. No longer able to walk confidently as who they were created to be and represent, Adam and Eve, hid. Earth's first exposure to panic. The first desire to live life apart from God because if we allow Him...what will He see?
But God before all of creation fell, had a plan to lift it up high. And when creation's finest was feeling naked and abandoned, God came looking prepared to dress us as His bride. White garment without stain and without blemish. Our Savoir God , spilling the first blood that the earth has felt drip to it's soil. Blood shed to use the skin to cover shame. All of creation must have felt that drop. The time of suffering and separation beginning. God was so near, and now His perfect presence will feel farther and farther off with every evil deed committed and every drop of blood spilled.
What proof of the love between God the Father and God the Son, that fellowship is given up for our rescue. Being among us, even without us acknowledging their presence, and still they make a plan for rescue. Watching us daily cloth ourselves with dead skins and dirty garments, when what was prepared for us were cloths only suitable for a bride and groom. God in His angry, jealous love, conceived a child. Born natural, a living God the Son. And once and for all I have an option about who I am. I no longer have to wear shame and dirt. I don't wear other sins on my soul, and I can dress myself in the love of my Savior, who let His blood drip to the earth.
And His drops were from an eternal standpoint, the last drops. All of creation takes a great big sigh. It has been done. There is no more curse and shame. All is made well when one's lips whisper the name of this Christ child with us. "Jesus" He is here. And where He is there is no hiding. There is no shame, condemnation, no anger or greed. Perfect love casts out fear. And His love is made perfect in my weakness. Nothing left to do but receive and believe.
So today I rejoice. We are the bride of Christ. We are clothed with righteousness. Our Sins were as scarlet, like dripping vengeful blood, but they have been basked in the blood of Jesus and we are made white as snow.
Today I will choose to be with the most broken, foul mouthed person who God sends my way. I will choose to see through the façade. And then I will let love fill my view as I look right though. I will see the hurt that led to our journey's meeting place. I will listen to the needs and speak hope and blessing.
As a bride of Christ, I will take the nature of the one who chose me. I will be dressed in love.
D is for Dressed.
All the way back we rewind the story from where we stand. Exposure with shame started in the most beautiful place any natural eyes could behold. A perfect place. Created for souls made in the image of God. People whom God saw and said it is very good. It was in this perfect place that eyes were opened. Where all that was beheld was good and true, evil slithered in and through contemplating the unseen with evil itself, a veil was formed. Evil corruption in every sense transaction of heart, soul, and mind.
The worse of all...naked exposure. What God had formed to be the most beautiful of all creation was corrupted by one feeling. Shame. No longer able to walk confidently as who they were created to be and represent, Adam and Eve, hid. Earth's first exposure to panic. The first desire to live life apart from God because if we allow Him...what will He see?
But God before all of creation fell, had a plan to lift it up high. And when creation's finest was feeling naked and abandoned, God came looking prepared to dress us as His bride. White garment without stain and without blemish. Our Savoir God , spilling the first blood that the earth has felt drip to it's soil. Blood shed to use the skin to cover shame. All of creation must have felt that drop. The time of suffering and separation beginning. God was so near, and now His perfect presence will feel farther and farther off with every evil deed committed and every drop of blood spilled.
What proof of the love between God the Father and God the Son, that fellowship is given up for our rescue. Being among us, even without us acknowledging their presence, and still they make a plan for rescue. Watching us daily cloth ourselves with dead skins and dirty garments, when what was prepared for us were cloths only suitable for a bride and groom. God in His angry, jealous love, conceived a child. Born natural, a living God the Son. And once and for all I have an option about who I am. I no longer have to wear shame and dirt. I don't wear other sins on my soul, and I can dress myself in the love of my Savior, who let His blood drip to the earth.
And His drops were from an eternal standpoint, the last drops. All of creation takes a great big sigh. It has been done. There is no more curse and shame. All is made well when one's lips whisper the name of this Christ child with us. "Jesus" He is here. And where He is there is no hiding. There is no shame, condemnation, no anger or greed. Perfect love casts out fear. And His love is made perfect in my weakness. Nothing left to do but receive and believe.
So today I rejoice. We are the bride of Christ. We are clothed with righteousness. Our Sins were as scarlet, like dripping vengeful blood, but they have been basked in the blood of Jesus and we are made white as snow.
Today I will choose to be with the most broken, foul mouthed person who God sends my way. I will choose to see through the façade. And then I will let love fill my view as I look right though. I will see the hurt that led to our journey's meeting place. I will listen to the needs and speak hope and blessing.
As a bride of Christ, I will take the nature of the one who chose me. I will be dressed in love.
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