You Used to be Ugly Too!

“And so faith, hope, love abide [faith—conviction and belief respecting man’s relation to God and divine things; hope—joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation;

love—true affection for God and man, growing out of God’s love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

I Corinthians 13:13(Amplified)

 

 

The songwriter wrote these words –

“Living, He loved me, dying, He saved me, Buried, He carried my sins far away Rising, He justified freely forever One day He's coming, oh, glorious day, oh, glorious day!”

Let’s not even try to get past the first four words =

“Living, He loved me…”

So how might we, who are made in His image, best ‘re-present’ Him to others?

He lives in you in order that He might love through you to others.

Not just the ‘others’ you like.

Not just the ‘others’ who love you back.  

If you’ll forgive me – you were pretty ‘ugly’ before Jesus came into your life,

I can hear the protests.

But those denials ignore the ugliness of sin each of us was born with.

He washed away our sin and made us a new creation in Christ.

Only then was the ‘ugly’ in you (and me) taken away

Don’t be scared off by someone else’s ‘ugly’.

Jesus didn’t let it stop Him from loving you.

The truth be told – sometimes you still can be ugly (yep, me too).

Does God’s love for you cease at those moments?

Of course not!

So His love in you – let it shine through you.

Let it bring someone out of ‘ugly’ into the beautiful call God has for their life.

Send ‘ugly’ running simply by loving as He loved you!