Give your skin a pinch. Grab it in several places. It's stretchy, thick, gets soft. Look at some family pictures, and look in the mirror. How would you look without skin? I bet you're pretty grateful for skin about now!
What are some ways skin protects you? If you take time on this one, you come to realize that skin is really important. Skin is a living organ of your body, an amazing creation! Your skin is designed to be restorative--if cut it heals, if burned it recovers. It can grow back. It is designed to rebuild itself. Your skin stretches tightly over you, very "near" to you.
Read Psalm 73:25-28. I'll write it in below in The Message, but look it up in another version if possible.
You're all I want in heaven!
You're all I want on earth!
When my skin sags and my bones get brittle,
God is rock-firm and faithful.
Look! Those who left you are falling apart!
Deserters, they'll never be heard from again.
But I'm in the very presence of God—
oh, how refreshing it is!
I've made Lord God my home.
God, I'm telling the world what you do!
This passage speaks of the benefit of being near to God... and the danger of being far away from Him. God wants you to feel as close to him as your skin is to your body. If you will invite Him, allow Him to be so, Christ is in you, closer than your skin, filling you, protecting you, restoring and rebuilding you all the time.
Read verse 28 again. How close do you typically feel to God? When do you feel closest to Him? When do you feel farthest away? Ho close do you want to feel to God? What can you do to draw closer to Him--to realize how close He is to you?
Let Christ be in you today. Every time you touch your skin, remember that He is there with you to protect you, to guide you, to lead you, to restore you, to love you--to be close to you.
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