“Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,–loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.”- Harriet Beecher Stowe
There are some of us who are so familiar with our imperfections that we sometimes forget the beauty that God sees in us as His children. We may have our weaknesses, but our origin is still of a divine nature. God has created us after His own image, and all that God has made is good.
We need to be reminded every now and then that there is still that spark of goodness that is within each and every one of us. We need to remember that we are more than our imperfection and our mistakes. We are more than our problems and our troubles.
There is also light and there is also beauty. There is still hope for us, and we have no idea what we can be if we allow God to purify us and make us as He is.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” – Romans 8:14-14, WEB
The thing about hope is that it’s a positive force that shines the most when it’s dark. When everything’s going well, we hardly notice it’s there. But when things go against us, when our dreams fade and when we see no immediate reprieve from our troubles, that’s when hope does its best work for us.
"Where Hope Can Be Found"