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On G-d’s Easel

by cndllighter

You’re standing in front of a mirror looking at yourself. Your mind is flooded with imperfections as you stare back. You have the power to change anything and everything with which you’re unhappy, unsatisfied. It is painless, immediate and efficient. Do you use this power?

Most people do not accept the way G-d made them – myself included. 😦 Every relationship in life will be affected by how we view ourselves. If we reject our design, it will be difficult to trust our designer. It makes us feel inferior and inadequate. We develop a balance: there is no good in the flesh (Romans 7:18), but we are fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14). We are desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9), but we are made in the image of G-d (Genesis 1:27).

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