God Is Wild About Us!

Last week we had Vacation Bible School at our church.  The theme was; “God is wild about us.”  One of the things I did was I took pictures of the children, so they’d have a keepsake to remember their week of VBS.  The picture with this posting is of my granddaughter Grace.  Grace is 3 ½ and she likes to wiggle, so the first picture I took of her wasn’t so good, she couldn’t stand still, her arms were everywhere and she wouldn’t look at the camera.  So the next night of VBS we did a redo and Grace, graced us with less wiggles and more cooperation and the picture turned out much better.  It looks more like the beautiful, fun loving little girl, her grandfather is wild about.  The theme of VBS was right on, and I’m convinced that God IS wild about us.  God is so wild about us that the final portrait of our lives will have no trace of the errors and blunders we have made.  What will be there for all to see and admire is the working and wonder of God’s love and grace made visible in and through our lives.  The good news of the Gospel is not just that God offers us a redo and lots of them, but that God’s love is powerful enough to perfect and capture the right image of us.