Paint Mines, Calhan, Colorado
I'm glad that this picture doesn't tell the whole story of what I experienced when I pushed the shutter button to capture this sunset.
What looks like a beautiful, peaceful sunset was actually time spend swatting mosquitoes. While I held my cable release in one hand, I fanned the mosquitoes away with the other. How do mosquitoes end up in the desert anyway (rhetorical question, please don't answer)? Fortunately, none of them ended up on the front end of my camera lens.
There's a metaphor of forgiveness in this story.
"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us." Psalm 103:11-12 English Standard Version
The picture of life is the same for those in Christ and those who don't know him. The difference is that God has removed the mosquitoes from those who believe in Jesus. Our sins no longer buzz around our bodies and bite us. God has removed them as far as the east is from the west. Their removal came at the cost of Christ's blood.
Our sins no longer have the ability to obscure our view of God. Through God's gift of grace we can gaze at the amazing beauty of our creative, redeeming, and embracing God.
And what a view it is!
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What looks like a beautiful, peaceful sunset was actually time spend swatting mosquitoes. While I held my cable release in one hand, I fanned the mosquitoes away with the other. How do mosquitoes end up in the desert anyway (rhetorical question, please don't answer)? Fortunately, none of them ended up on the front end of my camera lens.
There's a metaphor of forgiveness in this story.
"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us." Psalm 103:11-12 English Standard Version
The picture of life is the same for those in Christ and those who don't know him. The difference is that God has removed the mosquitoes from those who believe in Jesus. Our sins no longer buzz around our bodies and bite us. God has removed them as far as the east is from the west. Their removal came at the cost of Christ's blood.
Our sins no longer have the ability to obscure our view of God. Through God's gift of grace we can gaze at the amazing beauty of our creative, redeeming, and embracing God.
And what a view it is!
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2013-2014 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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