scars

I was stretching after my run this morning and noticed a circular scar on the back of my left calf. I had forgotten about it and was surprised it was still there and so clear. I starting thinking about scars, and how Jesus has scarred hands and feet. Then I was thinking how we can have physical scars and scars that are far more painful, but cannot be seen. I love that Jesus has physical scars as a symbol that he lived in the flesh and was just like us. But, on the other hand, doesn't have any 'unseen' scars, because in that sense, he wasn't like us. He was perfect while he lived on this pathetic, sinful world. Sometimes I think scars are cool, they are like permanent pictures on your body and usually have a story behind them. For instance, I have a rather large scar on my back upper thigh from when I was a baby and Sara took me out of the bathtub and laid me on a hot curling iron. It's a fun story to tell...although obviously a scar that isn't seen too often. :) Then I have my knees which are splattered with small scars from my volleyball days and a few times where I did some really stupid things that I'll keep to myself. But anyways back to this scar on my calf...I got this scar the night before I surrendered my whole life to Christ. I was at a bonfire with my usual crew and lets just say bottle rockets and bottles of Bud Light don't go well together. My friend lit one and it shot underneath the chair I was sitting in and proceeded to go off next to my leg. Anyways this isn't about the bottle rocket, and it's not a really great scar, but it represents a lot of things. It represents the night that I realized what I had become. It was the night God revealed so many things that I was turning a blind eye to. It was sort of like the grand finale of that period of my life. Anyways...that was a tangent that I didn't really intend to go off on....but....That's what that small scar represents and because of the scars the Jesus has, none of that matters. Maybe it's there to be a constant reminder of all I have been saved from and that the 'pleasures of sin' really do only last for a season, and that season will inevitably end badly with scars that can be seen, and even worse one's that can't.