A Beautiful Soul
“You are so beautiful to me.” (Joe Cocker, lyrics by Billy Preston and Bruce Carleton Fisher)
I imagine
God looking at His finest creation, man and woman and saying to them, “You are
so beautiful to me.” Yet very shortly
after their creation they would tarnish their beauty by selfishness and sin.
Our soul was
beautifully created but became stained by the sins we commit. It can become beautiful again if we will
submit ourselves to the Father. At
baptism our sins are washed away, and the beauty of the soul God created within
us is again pure and unsullied.
However, we,
like our first parents, listen to the lies of Satan, falling once again from
grace and soiling the beauty of our soul.
The fact that much of society today denies that Satan even exists is one
of the devil’s greatest successes. How
can we protect ourselves and our souls from something we don’t believe
exists? We can’t!
How I long
to leave this sinful world and be united with the Father in heaven. No longer will there be the temptations to
sin, the staining of my soul. My soul will then reflect all the beauty that God
intended for all eternity. I know that
when it is time He will call me; my prayer is that I will be prepared to hear
those words from my Lord, “You are so beautiful to me.”
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