This morning, let us give thanks for the greatest miracle of all. Let us thank God for being God. Thank God for Jesus, who came from Paradise to live, suffer, and die here to be one with us to bring God to us to make us real. Let us give thanks this morning for the real God and for the real you. This morning, I want you to play that guessing game with yourself.
Most people have at least a few secret selves.
Few know the joy of really liking themselves down deep - because relatively few know that the secret lies not in who you are but in whose you are. That is why all sorts of self-improvement businesses thrive. People want to be more attractive, more together, and more successful than they think they are. They work to create images with which to satisfy themselves and convince others. But they don t trust the images they create.