In yellow hue

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I learnt two things today. The first was through Simon Röhrs, a ten-year old boy in Grd 4. He wrote an essay about his favorite hobby, and his favorite hobby is reading. Whilst starting off normally, in the second paragraph he described himself changing into a rat - "die Leseratte" - someone who reads a little is called a rat in German. When I read the piece, I laughed out loud. It was brilliant. But therein lies not the lesson.

The lesson lay in the fact that Simon Röhrs was brilliant despite his apparent disorder - his desk is always a mess, papers scatter around him like leaves from an autumn tree, and he looks at me quizzically when I ask for his homework, being the only one in class who didn't know what the homework was. His average is 86% at school. It just goes to show that having order on the outside does not necessarily bring about brilliance in output.

I realised I didn't have to have all my ducks in a row. One duck could be going in the opposite direction, but the others still quack aloud.

The second lesson I learnt today was about God's light. God's light is often described as blinding. I have seen God's light as a neon kitchen light. It is extremely bright and hides nothing. It is unflattering. It leaves no doubt as to what you can see. If that light were to shine into my heart, it would reveal all things. I'd be exposed.

But instead of seeing God as the cop holding a torchlight at a thief hiding in a corner, God revealed a whole new side of Himself to me today. At The Deck, a restaurant on R24, there is a yellow-tainted window that casts a yellow hue on everything inside. The people looked beautiful. The food looked delicious. The lemonade in my glass, when held against the sun, looked inviting. Every cell in my lemon was revealed, but instead of being bad, it was beautiful.

I realised then and there that God's light is a candlelight that brings out the best of what lies inside. Like salt that is added to food to bring out the flavor that lies within, so is God's light. It reveals the potential inside us. It brings out our inner beauty. It casts everything in yellow hue.

When I have moments like these, I remember how I'd often ponder upon moments like these, but could never find the source of them. Now I know, it is God!

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Anonymous said…
So true,

To be technical:

The light of God reveals the truth about us.

What is the truth about us?
That we are corrupt, sinful and hopeless?

Or that we are forgiven, restored, healed and made whole?

Your point of departure makes a huge difference.

The true you, is Christ in you the hope of Glory (Col 1:27), seated in heavenly places etc. (Eph 3)

Now that Christ has come to reconcile the world to God (2Cor 5:18) The opposite is true of us.

We are a new Creation (2Cor 5:18)

The problem is with our thinking. We somehow still look at ourselves from our own human point of view, rather than seeing what God sees.

It is still (true)that we do have sin and issues in our lives, but that is subjective truth. It's true only for us.

The objective and real truth is who we now are in Christ, and how God actually sees us.

We need to align our own subjective truth to his TRUTH.

When we believe the REAL truth about us, we willingly let go of our own subjective truth and are transformed.

2Co 4:4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should not dawn on them.

Now that we have understood that Christ came for us, we need to still progressively renew our own thoughts about ourselves. (Rom 12)

God has declared us Holy, accepted, forgiven and the like (Eph 1, 3, Col 1) it's now up to us to be persuaded of THIS truth.

The more we are persuaded, the more we hold fast. The more we hold fast, the more we outwardly become what we spiritually and internally already are by what Christ has done.

Let us not insult the work of Christ on the cross, by not accepting the glorious work he has done for, on behalf and in us!

2Cor 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
December 7, 2010 at 2:24 PM
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