In His Presence

When we're in the presence of God...
We come as merely human. Merely flesh and bone. Imagine...a body. Your body. The skin is formed of our "glories": the good things we've done. The things we think we've done on our own. But in the presence of God...it is so small. It just blows away. The mask blows away...and reveals the ugliness within us. The charred bones, and all the grossness of our sins and mistakes...but we are still in the presence of God, and He reaches out and asks to take it all away. We're terrified, what would be left of us? We don't want to change... But if we trust Him and willingly give it to Him...it goes away. Our sins are taken away. And as we stand in His presence we realize...He starts transforming us. Making us anew. Can you imagine? We start to glow in His glory. Our hearts reflect Him who we stand before and they are absolute, pure gold. But we don't revel in ourselves, we revel in the majesty of He who can transform people like us! He who loves us and cares for us even when we leave Him! He chose us so that He could bring us peace, joy, love... All we did was trust and have faith.