The Wayside Pulpit No.3
“Known”
"I
know you. I created you. I have loved you from your mother's womb. You
have fled - as you now know - from my love, but I love you nevertheless and
not-the-less however far you flee. It is I who sustains your very power of
fleeing, and I will never finally let you go. I accept you as you are. You are
forgiven. I know all your sufferings. I have always known them. Far beyond your
understanding, when you suffer, I suffer. I also know all the little tricks by
which you try to hide the ugliness you have made of your life from yourself and
others. But you are beautiful. You are beautiful more deeply within than you
can see. You are beautiful because you yourself, in the unique person that you
are, reflect already something of the beauty of my holiness in a way which
shall never end. You are beautiful also because I, and I alone, see the beauty
you shall become. Through the transforming power of my love, which is made
perfect in weakness, you shall become perfectly beautiful. You shall become
perfectly beautiful in a uniquely irreplaceable way, which neither you nor I
will work out alone, for we shall work it out together."
Taken from
"Known", by Rev. Dr. Charles K. Robinson,