We are a fallen people.  And we live in a fallen world.  I hear so much about “original sin.”  The sin that Adam and Eve committed when they listened to the lies of the enemy.  That was the original sin.  That is what changed everything for us.  Before that sin – Eden, Paradise, Heaven.  After that sin – a broken, fallen, world.

I hear so much about that.  I hear so much about how I shouldn’t sin.  How sinning is bad.  And it is, don’t get me wrong, but I wonder if there is a different message to hear.

What about our original Glory?  We were made in the image of a perfect God.  That is how glorious we are.  That is how we were created to live.  What if, instead of focusing on the sin, and the life that came immediately after that sin, we focused on what was BEFORE the sin. 

Sinning is central to our core.  Ever since that first sin, we have never been able to get it right.  But more central to our core is the glory that God created within us.  Sometimes I think if everyone tried to live in to that glory everyday, this world would be a better place.