Image in the glass

 

It’s so hard to see the image that the ONE who made me saw while fashioning my picture in His mind.

 It’s hard to see His plans for me, His perfect will displayed, when I look in memory’s mirror, and I find 

a messy tarnished drawing that is filling up the space,
as sin’s dark, blotted shadows aim to cover up my face
and show in me the likeness of our sinful human race. 

The image there can’t show God’s love –

it overlooks His grace. 

But,  

A new and heavenly mirror shines
since God paid sin’s penalty. 

And as I look into that glass a different view I see.
The dark and blotted shadows 
have been cast into the sea.

And in that glass

I find that God 
has taken them from me.

Now, I faintly see the picture that the GOD who made me saw
 as HE fashioned my own features in His mind. 

And in that heavenly mirror,
His covering love for me
became the only image that I see.

And His grateful child is all I want to be.

Diane Sept 2021