dailydatewithgod

Without realizing it we often carry around these ideas of how we have messed things up and made mistakes that are irreversible.  This creates a division between ourselves and how God sees us.  God does not look upon us by our mistakes.  God never sees anything less than the glorious creation God designed.  God is still real with us.  If there is something we have done to sever ourselves from our hearts then God is the first to encourage us to mend it.  Built within our hearts is this knowing that something is off.  We have somehow missed the mark when we make mistakes.  Which is probably why the Hebrew and Christian scriptures use the term sin which means to miss the mark.  When we feel that nudging from inside our hearts and souls then we know things are working as designed.  Not to condemn us but to wake up to how and why we are ill at ease with ourselves.  Most of us, me included, do more than an adequate job of condemning ourselves.  I am ready to do it way before anyone else will.  God views us as never having lost touch with the true essence of ourselves which is love.   It is the forgiven view.  The invitation from missing the mark that we feel is the design by which we can come to reconnect with the forgiven view through which God sees us.