New Skin

I'm so behind on my posting. I need to start doing these as soon I finish a chapter. This book is like punch after righteous punch. So many great thoughts. Im starting to regret getting the ebook cause I really want to underline and highlight. I will probably end up buying the hard copy.

Ive always loved that part in Voyage of the Dawn Treader and it perfectly illustrates the process I have been going through. I look back at my journey and see the ways I've tried by my own hand to scrape off the dead skin. But God wanted to go deeper. And it hurts when He really digs in there. Its funny how my reflections and prayers have been paralleling everything Keller addresses in this book. No it's not funny, it's so God. I remember not too long ago meditating on those deepest wishes that I thought I wanted and realizing that God knows what the desires of my heart truly is. And that is precisely what he continues to uncover. The observation about the actors who "fulfill" their dream definitely spoke to me. "I'm not going to play that rotten joke on you. I'm not going to just heal your body and let you think you've gotten your deepest wish." Praise His name for loving us this much!

I am feeling that fresh new skin, the new self that can only be explained by God's hand. I am thankfully seeing right now what God wants to reveal to us all. That our deepest wish "is for Jesus himself. He will not just have granted that true deepest wish, he will have fulfilled it." My prayer is continue falling in love with Jesus and living for him rather than all the counterfeit dreams that can so easily deceive and seeing him as the best gift in the world.

Parrishute