Thursday, April 26, 2007

something beautiful, something good

Most days I have a song -- one specific song that hits me usually in the morning and that my mind keeps on continuous play throughout the day. A lot of the time there's one particular line that sticks out.

Today's line is from "Lord, Reign in Me":

"May my life reflect/The beauty of my Lord."

Not accidentally, I have been thinking this week about freedom in Christ and the promise of the life He offers us compared to the drab idea of the Christian life as a series of rules and regulations and thou-shalt-nots -- an idea that seems to attack me especially strongly when I realize the depth of my hypocrisy (as if the way to change that is to follow more rules more carefully).

But what a different perspective when I think that my mission on earth is to glorify Christ, treasure Him, and reflect His beauty.

It makes things so much simpler just to turn all my aim in life -- in everything -- and place it under one banner of "to glorify Him more." Maybe this is what He meant by "My yoke is easy and My burden is light"?

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