I was coming back from some time with the Lord at the Diascund Reservoir this morning. Large flocks of geese bobbed on the reservoir surface contentedly or honked overhead as the gray of the new morning harmonized with the silvery surface of the water. After spending some time in the book of 2nd Peter and contemplating the New Heaven and New Earth that one day will follow the fiery end of our current world, I headed home around the curves of familiar country roads. I noticed a sign out of the corner of my eye "........'s Lifelike Taxidermy". I thought about how interesting it is that people go to a lot of trouble and time to hunt beautiful animals so that, after they are dead, they can be made to look alive. Wild game can be strikingly beautiful: deer, large birds and hawks, swordfish...They are so elusive and quick that we rarely can appreciate their beauty in life. The taxidermist freezes and preserves the beauty, at the cost of the life. People are also beautiful. Inside and out they are the craft of the Creator. We did not make ourselves and, in our rush, we may fail to appreciate the stunning beauty that God has imbued in our makeup. Without being stuffed or mounted, many people are like walking products of a Taxidermist. They are beautiful but they are without "real life". Unlike the deer preserved by the owner of Lifelike Taxidermy, we human specimens have the opportunity of coming down off the wall and taking on life. Peter describes this beautifully in 2nd Peter, chapter 1:19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;
Until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts we are like mounted deer...beautiful, but without life. This is why Jesus came...to take us off the wall and set our beauty into motion.
blessings to all the beautiful specimens out there,
Rob Smith
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