When we think about the story of our lives, no matter how poorly or how opulently we see the story of our lives, the climax of our life stories is usually the point where we meet love and make it our own, or mine. What if I told you that the story of God’s life is just that? The climax of His story is when He meets love and makes it His own. Imagine when our love story and God’s intersects. How wonderful would that new story be to both us and to God? This intersection between God’s love story and our own is when we can call God mine, and when God calls us, mine, is a spectacular climax which will not ever cease to end.
When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.” – Ezekiel 16:8
God tells the prophet Ezekiel how He meets love. God tells Ezekiel that His love was not for something or someone beautiful, but for a naked, broken, and dirty piece of dirt. God tells Ezekiel that when He loves, He loves in a way that makes whatever He loves beautiful beyond imagination. God, in His love makes a bond that cannot be broken and holds the object of that love aloft and to beautifies it. God covers nakedness, He heals wounds, and mends the broken when He touches, this is His promise to those He loves. When God plainly sees all of our ugliness, He choose to intersect His own story with ours to make ours beautiful with His. I can tell you that we cannot even stand to bare each other in our slight blemishes, but when we see how God loves us in full view of everything that is wrong with us, it is exactly what we need in our lives. Realize we are where we are and look half as descent as we do only because God has covered us with His love. It is from that love we even have the ability to lift our heads above the fray of dirt and we must not forget that. Today, when you look in the mirror or see the people around you looking wretched and ugly remember we are all in the process of becoming God’s “mine.”
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