Looking Through God's Eyes (1)

God doesn’t see things the way we see things. He can see good in what we judge to be worthless, and He may see evil consequences in what we may deep harmless. Not only may He see thing differently than we do, He may see people differently as well. And He may see “me” differently than I see myself too.

Our perception of self and others is fallible. We can erroneously inflate or deflate the worth of ourselves and others. The challenge is to place the same value on people and things which God places on them.

Think about the weaker side of these Bible characters:

Noah got drunk.
Abraham lied.
Jacob provoked his children to wrath
Leah was not good looking.
Joseph was abused.
Moses wasn’t a good speaker.
Gideon was afraid.
Samson was immoral.
Rahab was a prostitute.
Timothy was young for being a preacher.
David committed adultery and was a murderer.
Elijah was depressed.
Jonah ran away from God.
Naomi was a widow.
Job lost everything.
John the Baptist had strange personal habits.
Peter denied Christ.
Martha was a worrier.
The Samaritan woman was divorced.
Zaccheus was small.
Paul imprisoned and kill Christians

(And the list could go on and on…)

The point is not that weakness and failure aren’t important, it’s that God says, “…My strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Co 12:9). It’s when we depend on our own strength that we are weak and fail, but when we realize with Paul, “…when I am weak then I am strong” – that’s when “…the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Co 12:8-10).

More next week…  dd