Good morning.
Did you know that we are so ugly. God is beautful. Genesis 1:verse 31 Says and God saw everything that HE had made and that is was very good. Look at Ecclesiastes chapter 7:verse 29. It says, " I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways to avoid being decent". So we see God is not responsible for the ugliness in the world, only the beauty. Look now at Genesis chapter 3. The entire chapter. You will see how clever the snake was and it was more clever than any wild animal God had made. It told Eve that if she ate of the forbidden tree, she would become like God, knowing good and evil. So she ate, and gave some of the fruit to Adam and he ate. We see the punisment given to Adam, Eve, and the snake. Then at the end of the chapter we see God's concern about them continuing to eat the fruit from the tree of life. Man would live forever. Let me remind you about this. If man had eaten continuously from this tree he would have lived forever in his state of sin. Imagine evil killers, world dictators that torture people being able to do those things and never having to die. And for the rest of us, no chance for salvation being saved from our sins and redeemed back to God. Wow! Now lets look at this. Secondly we must understand that we would not be able to recognize evil unless we had an objective understanding of the good. We would not know the ugly unless we had some concept of the beautiful. So the fact that we know there are aspects of this world that are evil and ugly shows that ultimately there must be some objective standard for good and beautiful.....that standard is GOD.
Oh how ugly a sinner i have been. Helping to do my part in the ugliness of this beautiful world. Dear Heavenly Father, forgive me my ugliness, the sin i know, and the sin i am not aware of. I pray anyone reading this comprehends that we can repent, follow Jesus and see the world as God sees it. Beautiful.
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