"God rewrote the text of my life
when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes." Psalm 18:24 The Message
I love this. It makes me think of English class when we would have to write essays. We would all spend about half the class time writing, and then the next half we would have to have another student in class to read them and make corrections. I HATED that. I was always embarrassed to know what people thought of my work. It made me seem vulnerable...what if they didn't like it or thought what I had to say was dumb? I had no way of getting around it..if I wanted to make a good grade in the class I had to let others read. However, God doesn't force me to open up the book of my life to him (even though he already knows everything). He gives me that choice. Though, as this verse says "once I opened the book of my heart to his eyes..God rewrote." I think that is wonderful, scary, embarrassing, awesome all at the same time. Part of me wants to be how I was in my English class and hid everything from God because I do mess up a lot. However, the only way for me to grow is to let him write my story. I obviously cannot do it on my own. This morning my sin was laying heavily on my heart, but after reading this I know God can rewrite my story. He forgives. I have this beautiful picture of my story laid out before Christ with some good material to work with and then lots of bad...more bad than good, but then beside it there is his perfect penmanship rewriting that story for me. All because I allowed God in, worked with him, listened to him, prayed to him, and let him show me the way. God is there to help me as long as I open up my life to him. Yes, it's hard being vulnerable but that's what is wonderful about it. We have to let him have all of us before we can truly make a beautiful story.
