The Lovable Spot

When my wife and I were going through pre-marital counseling, I remember a book that my pastor would reference. In this book it gave the definition of the perfect love. It said that a perfect love is when a person accepts and appreciates a person including all of their flaws. For years, I thought that I understood this definition, but it wasn't until my first daughter was born that God gave me a revelation about it. Months after her birth, when sitting in my lap, I started to notice that she would often reach for to touch a blackhead that I have my right arm. She would even go under my sleeve to try to find it if I happened to be wearing long sleeves. To her, that was her "spot" and she always tried to find it when in daddy's arms. But to me, it was a blemish and I had tried to get rid of that blackhead many times over, but nothing I did would quite get rid of it. She, obviously, did not view the blackhead on my arm the same way that I did. She cherished it and it was not a blemish, but it was a part of her dad and she was not going to stop loving her daddy because of it, in fact it helped her love me even more. It was a place of familiarity when in my arms and it was as much a part of me as my hands or feet. If only we could love like that! Only if we could learn to love others including their "spots". What if we could see them, not where they are now, but where they have come from and where they are going. In other words what if we looked at people the way that God sees them. Sometimes we are personally ashamed of our own blemishes, yet it's God's "spot". it's the very spot that God will turn into a testimony to win many into the Kingdom of God. Today I ask you, what do you have, a blemish or a spot? To you it might be a blemish, but to God it's a lovable spot?