Save the broken sinner, not the righteous who need no savior. If we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, what happens when we hate what we see in the mirror? Jesus reminds us he came to heal the sick, not the healthy. Jason Gray wrote a song years ago called " The Golden Boy and the Prodiga l" about this doppelganger effect. Jesus looks into the mirror and his heart breaks for relationship with us. We look into the mirror and hate ourselves. And since I and my doppelganger share the same blood - then Jesus came for me on my best days when my pride is blinding me from my need for a Savior - and he came for me on my worst days when the monster has won the day. He reminds me that he didn't come for the part of me that is healthy he came for the part of me that is sick. He looks at my ghostly alternate and says "that's the part of you that I came for, that I love, that I redeemed". He isn't mad, he isn't upset, he isn't ashamed, he isn't disappointed. When slowly I become aware that Jesus is standing right behind me. Because on the other side of the pretty version of me, my ghostly double, the monster that is inside me, is too much to bear.īut, this is where the healing begins I have this picture in my mind of me standing in front of a mirror staring at the doppelganger, ashamed of what it is and that it is a part of me. I am afraid - deeply afraid to really look into the mirror. The Bible that hasn't been opened in a week.Īs I think about the alarming rise of fear, anxiety, depression, and suicide among people today, especially for young adults, there is something that is becoming clearer and clearer to me. The disappointment I unleash on my kids when I'm not paying any attention to them. I would hate for you to see the guy who swears at the TV when Michigan or the Packers can't do anything on offense. The super Christian who knows some Bible passages and how to apply them. The smart and witty version of me, who has the right answer to the question. I would hate for you to see that version of me, and I really want you to see my best version. You see, I've been coming to a realization about myself and about us as human beings. I had never heard the word before an artist that I have a lot of respect for somehow managed to put it into a song that somehow made a lot of sense. Do you know what a "doppelganger" is? The dictionary gives the entry of "a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person".
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