Only Human - Is. 1:5, 18

From 7/1/07 reading:

"Your head is injured , and you heart is sick. you are sick from head to foot--covered with bruises, welts and infected wounds--without any ointments or bandages... I can remove it. I can make you as clean as freshly fallen snow." Is. 1:5, 18

Without Christ, this is how God sees us--sick, ugly, infected, effectively on a path to death. Out of his abundant mercy, he offers us life--first to the Jews, now to us. It's incredible his love and desire for us--he just wants his kids back! He wants to pour out his love, we just have to accept it. Unfortunately, our humanness seems to compel us to go it alone, to believe that we can do it without God, to think that we are actually something of importance and value. Without God, we are none of these things. We are nothing more than a walking corpse.

Thank you God that you love me, that you have chosen me from a path of death.

Today's reading: Is. 1-3; Tit. 3