But I’m only human…

How often have we uttered these words?

We as humans are often our own worst critics. We are good at talking down to ourselves. We are good at making excuses for our mistakes, and sometimes even for our intentional sin when we give into seemingly harmless temptations.

But the truth is “only human” should be the highest honor we could receive. In a sense we might say that God himself was the first one to call us “only human”, and he never meant it in a negative way.

As God breathed formed us by hand into his own image and breathed his very breath into our lungs and gave us authority over every other living thing on earth, God gave us the highest honor that one could ever bestow…

Greater than any award… greater than a military or presidential medal, more honor than anyone could possibly bestow on us…

God essentially says – “you are my son… you are my daughter… I made you. I gave you life. I loved you before you ever existed and out of that love I wove every part of you together. What I have created is good… but you, my child…. You are “supremely good”…