unsatisfied
01 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
So…I’ve been reading this book about how God created me to be ME…that everything about my identity as a woman was perfectly planned and designed to teach us- as humans- more about the character of God and His love for us…..and it’s hard. It is hard for me to grasp that as women we are the crowning jewel of His creation- that our longing for beauty and to have someone desire us is a reflection of God’s heart… that there is nothing wrong with these things.
Pretty intense start, isn’t it?
And then the book goes on (by the way, I’m only in the second chapter) to describe how sin has impacted more than just our relationship with God and with each other, but that the result of that sin means we will always struggle to be fulfilled in the roles God created for us.
and I’m speechless.
You see, in all of the times I’ve thought about how sin affects us…I’ve never considered more than just the basic impact of original sin. I never once thought about how those sins affected our perceptions of who we are. I never considered how with that first step we took to take matters into our own hands (by not trusting that God was giving us all that was good), we set ourselves up to be unfulfilled- always searching. Thinking about this for the first time I can finally understand how it is that all humans struggle with the same primary issues- we are all trying to fulfill a role we were created for, but are no longer able to achieve. Because of our sin, we are unsatisfied.
it explains so much.
