Now, please allow me to ask which of the following questions is the most important in regard to the way you see yourself:
1. How others see you?
2. How you see yourself?
3. Or how God sees you?
At first guess you may say, how God sees me, of course! Although it is important how God views us, it doesn't override the inner image we have of ourselves. Let me clarify. While you were living in sin, distant from God, did God view you any different than He does right now? No, He certainly didn't. His Word is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Psalms says, "How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them." God has always thought only positive things about you.
In His eyes, you are righteous. You are pure, holy, and just. But how do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as righteous, holy, pure, and just? Or do you see yourself unworthy and undeserving of God's grace and His mercy? Do you like yourself? Do you see yourself victorious?
The Israelites saw themselves as grasshoppers, but Solomon said it like this, "As a man thinks in his heart, so he is." How God thinks about you is not the problem; it is how you think about you. Begin today to implant God's thoughts into your internal hard drive and cultivate the self-image of Christ Himself. Only then, can you walk as Christ did.
Daily Confession
Father, I thank You that my present perspective is an expression of my inner self-image. Therefore I choose to embrace Your thoughts and take captive every thought that is contrary to what You say about me.
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