Behold

There are over 1200 instances of the word, "behold" in the bible. There are over 1200 instances of God trying to get our attention in the bible. In Genesis, God used the word, "behold" to show Adam and Eve the garden of Eden. God used the word, "behold" to establish a covenant with Abraham and Noah. John used the word, "behold" to identify Jesus as the lamb of God.  What is God using to get your attention? What are you ignoring? What do you need to behold? 

Beautiful

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Most of us have been conditioned to accept certain standards of beauty. If God sees beauty in our brokenness, then what do we see beauty in? Do we see beauty in creation? Do we see beauty in destruction? Do we see beauty in our pain? Do we see beauty in sickness and death? What if our life story was weaved with a colorful collection of our successes and failures sown together with our joy and pain? What if our weakness makes us beautiful? Our need for a savior and our inability to save ourselves made us God’s most beautiful creation. We are beautiful because we are flawed. We are beautiful because of our imperfections.