How Do You See Yourself

January 28, 2024

How Do You See Yourself?

”And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”“

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭3‬:‭17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Imagine God is saying that to you my friend. 

This week I was reminded that we must see ourselves the way God sees us. As Christians, born again, children of the Most High God, how do you see yourself? 

I realized that the battles in the mind from the enemy will always be to bring us to a place where we don’t see how very precious we are to God, or how pleased He is with us. 

That’s sad because when God looks at us, He sees Jesus in all His perfection! That may be hard to digest, but it’s the truth! God doesn’t look at our sins and failures, or all of what we see as our shortcomings. 

No! He sees a beautiful creation breathed from his very mouth. He sees someone very special whom He knit together in our mother’s womb; someone that He gifted with something very special to be used in this life to bless everyone around us. 

Here is how special you and I are to God. 

”Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; 

That’s from Genesis 1. So let’s stop and think about that and how very powerful it is. You were made to look like God (Jesus’, the physical representation of God) and you were made to act like Him! 

How awesome is that my friend! So if He made us in His image, then sent Jesus to be our Savior and give us His Spirit to live in us, why would we ever see ourselves as anything less than His beloved royal children? 

 

He made us and created us to do the special things He designed us to do. Here is what Ephesians says, ”For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.“

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Here’s more that He says about us, ”and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,“

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

And how about this? 

”But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.“

‭‭I Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭9‬-‭10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

As I pondered this stuff about being His accepted in the Beloved child, why would we ever allow the devil to put negative thoughts about who we are to our Lord in our minds???? 

The big thing satan wants to do is to convince us that we are failures and will never measure up. He doesn’t want us to know how much God wants to do for us to bless others. He doesn’t want us to feel the love in the spirit and to know that God’s love far exceeds any human love we could ever know. 

Why? Because if we knew that deep down in our hearts, we wouldn’t let the devil slow us down for a second! Church, it’s time to wake up to what God has already assured us in His Word about who we really are in Him and how precious we are to Him! 

Then we can walk confidently in our calling as we love Him with all our hearts and take that love to the world around us. He is a good Father, Savior, Lord, Helper and Comforter! He will take us deeper than we ever thought possible to achieve more than we could ever ask or imagine. 

Let’s renew our minds starting right now and say, “enough devil!” Tell him who you really are in Christ and let him go tell his cohorts all that bad stuff! We are not going to circumvent the beauty of what God created because we listen the biggest loser and look at ourselves as anything less than royalty! 

We have a purpose and destiny to fulfill and we can approach every giant that we face from a place of victory! After all, God is for us and He will never leave us or forsake us! He loves us with an everlasting love! 

Believe it and go forward! I’m speaking to us all when I say, look in the mirror and tell yourself how loved and forgiven and special you are! Begin to love yourself the way God loves you (and me!) and watch how free you will feel. 

It’s about breaking negative thought patterns and renewing our mind and soul that our circumstances do NOT dictate who we are in Christ! Our born again spirit does! 

And if anyone who reads this is not born again, it’s time you get born again so you will see the beautiful you God made you to be. 

I needed this during this week. I’m taking it seriously and refuse to let the devil tell me I’m not good or I’m not going to fulfill my call! Let’s join together and tell the devil that he is the loser! 

We have the victory and all the love of God Almighty behind us to walk in the divine and everlasting love we were made to. 

God loves me and sees Jesus when He looks at me. And friend, that’s what He sees when He sees you! 

God bless you this week as you walk in the knowledge of His perfect love and forgiveness. 

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