Have You Noticed How Opposites Attract?

Day 132 of Photo Inspirations — Have you noticed how opposites attract?
You might think “How did THEY ever get together?”  I know that’s the way it was for my husband and I.  He had a serious, intuitive, methodical, perfectionist, deep-thinker personality.  I, on the far end of the spectrum (as far as the East is from the West), was/am a lighthearted, saguine, fun-loving, upbeat, go-with-the-flow personality.  It worked well for us.  We completed each other.  We made each other better because of what one of us lacked, the other had.  But, it didn’t come without years of maturing and adapting.

I started thinking about our relationship with God — how very opposite we are.
He is perfect.  We are not.
His ways and His thoughts are so much higher than our ways and our thoughts.
He loves unconditionally.  We do not.
He forgives and forgets.  We try to forgive, and seldom forget.
He gives without expectation of return.  We give expecting to receive.

But, here’s the really good news.  He is attracted to us, and we are attracted to Him.  Everything that He is, and we’re not, is okay — He knew that, so His perfect plan of giving us His best, His one and only Son, bonded us together in perfect completion.  Yes, “In Him you have been made complete……” Colossians 2:10  And, everyday as we spend time with Him, we’ll find ourselves taking on more and more of His characteristics and His beauty, and before long, we start to think as He thinks, forgiving and forgetting like He forgives and forgets, and gives and loves unconditionally.

Oh, how much we want to be like Him, but it’s a long, slow process of growth. Like in our marriages, maturing in Him, is a gradual, progressive development that will take the rest of our lives.  St. Paul said, “This will continue until we are . . . mature, just as Christ is, and we will be completely like him.” (Ephesians 4:13).  We are a work in progress, but the longer we are in relationship with Him……the more we will be complete in Him.  And, in this case — OPPOSITES DO ATTRACT!
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