Have You Forgotten?

"The LORD is gracious and compassionate,

   slow to anger and rich in love." Psalms 145:8

       I was talking to a young man the other day and he was consumed with the idea of God's jealousy, judgment, and wrath. He was stuck on those attributes and was bound by fear because of them. Now don't get me wrong, God is all those things. A healthy fear of God is good. But I think maybe many of us have forgotten how to find the beauty of God? Our creator is beautiful, he is gracious, compassionate, merciful, majestic, holy, faithful, loving, and good. He is God. His eternal power and his divine nature created the heavens and the earth, all the animals and people, the beginning and the end. 
      Where do I see God's beauty? Everywhere...even in the most unexpected places. I see His beauty in the face of a sleeping child, in a beautiful sunset, up on a mountain top, in the widow giving her few coins away, in the eyes of a new believer, in the arms of my husband. I have heard the beauty of God in a concert  of 30,000 people lifting their voices up in praise, in a song that has come from a soul touched by Him, in the sound of a newborn, in the cries of a mother overcome with grief but still holding on to hope. I have seen His followers create something beautiful in his name by building houses for the homeless, bringing clean water to Africa, going on mission trips to the outer most countries to share the good news, and giving up their Saturday to clean the yard of a single mom. 
      This week let's not try to be better, do more, or be more....let's get to know our God. Let's fall in love with the one who created us by looking around and really searching for his beauty. Let's be amazed and stand in awe of our beautiful God.   

Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,

   your justice like the great deep. Psalms 36:5-6