Today I got to spend some time at Hallet Cove Conservation park on the south side of Adelaide. It's a beautiful place that I'd recommend you visit when any of you decide to visit South Australia.
While there I saw some beautiful rock formations as well as a wild and rough ocean. Though scientists claim it was created over millions of years (I have no way of confirming or denying this hypothesis) but I do believe that it was a place created in the mind of God and then formed so that we could enjoy its beauty.
The way this rocks were formed was through glacial activity over many years, tidal activity and also by human intervention. Did God use all these processes in his creative process? Yes.
Just like Jackson Pollock created masterpieces by scattering and spreading paint, God created this this beautiful area by scattering rock, ice and water along the western coast to create His masterpiece. The only difference was God knew before its time how each rock, block of ice and each drop of rain will affect the landscape. He saw the masterpiece I see today even before I saw it ever before he began creating it.
In the same way our lives are his creation. he knew us before we were even formed, before our parents even thought of doing the deed, or for some of us, buying the test tube. But he saw the end result. He sees us as we are now even from back then. Yes I said SEES (present tense). He sees us in the future we live in from back then before we were born or created. The All knowing God I believe in can do that. Kinda like Dr Who but cooler. :D
Now the masterpiece of our lives may not be complete yet but when God looks at it even now, He says "It is good" because He the perfect God created it. But he also knows what the final masterpiece looks like and is anticipating when at the end of time we will be revealed as God's perfect creation.
You may now be thinking, "What about now? If perfection comes at the end, what does he see now? Is my life really worth the effort if all it's about is the final product? what do I do?"
Lots of questions, my suggestion, "Live Life".
He is the painter creating his masterpiece. he looks at you every morning and he sees every imperfection, every blotch, every smear and still thinks you are perfect. For me, Jesus is the one who makes me perfect to God. I can never be perfect but Jesus who was fully God, fully human, fully perfect and he through a whole lot of theological principles, which I won't go into here, fills in my imperfections so God always sees the final, perfect product.
Now don't get me wrong, PEOPLE will see the imperfections. They will notice the blotches, the scars, the bags under the eyes, the broken promises, the missed opportunities, the pain, the agony, the fear. They will critique and give their opinion. They may call you names just as I on occasionally have found myself doing to others and even to myself.
But it takes a daily reminder that we are seen as perfect. "The Scream" to me is one of the scariest paintings I have seen. Someday I wish to see the real thing. It is a reflection of a man screaming, either in pain or fear or replusion or desperation. He screams a blood curdling scream in the twilight, but no one can help him, no one can rescue him. They can only watch him as he screams an eternal scream through the ages. Yet we know, this very painting that brings fear, and to some, the motherly instinct to protect, was once looked upon by the artist who at the end of painting it said "It is good".
In our lives, we should let them critique, let them stare at the deformity and the imperfection. Some would see the real beauty in you as I see in "The Scream". Others would ignore the beauty and only see the pain and ugliness. But always remember, God sees you as beautiful. A monument to His creative genius.
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