There will be no distinction between them and the children you birthed. They are all on a level playing field, no one having any sort of advantage over the other. Ephesians Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.
And not only does God see you for who you are in Him now, He sees who you were before Him and He sees who you are becoming. So when we come to Jesus, believe in Him and confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord — we change. We learn from Ephesians that we were once darkness but have now been transformed into children of light.
There is a vast difference between light and darkness. To go from one to the other requires us to change. As a result of sin, we became like prodigal sons and daughters see Luke to learn more on this.
He is literally piecing together a whole new you; where you are made in His image and likeness. Pride, impatience, lack of empathy. I snap at my kids. I get frustrated with my husband. We have to work at changing our thinking. Concerning this salvation, the prophets who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care.
Once we extend grace to ourselves, we will be able to extend grace to those around us, both those in the church community and those outside. We need to cease trying to live up to these distorted beliefs and learn to line our thinking up with the way God views us. God uses various metaphors to describe his love and care for us — a nursing mother, a loving father, a shepherd, etc. Here are some verses to meditate on:.
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We see this in Revelation , where we read that the eternal city of God has twelve gates. Two former Muslims, who now are outstanding evangelists proclaiming the transforming power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, keep me spellbound. They and many others tell us that Muslims are coming to Jesus Christ by the hundreds of thousands around the world.
One of the most amazing things is how many report that they first heard from Jesus Christ Himself, who appears to them in dreams and visions. You see, God can use anyone to advance His purposes here on earth Daniel 2 , 4, 6 and Romans And the leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations. It puts a whole new perspective on everything in this life—as we look back through history, as we look at the 21st century so far, and as we look ahead to what may be coming.
God not only can use anyone to advance His purposes, but God often uses them as a means of drawing these individuals into His Family. The reality is, the more opposed someone is when God starts using them, the more likely that the one true Lord God will draw them to faith in Him. It sounds counterintuitive, but we see this over and over in Scripture, in Church history, in modern biography, and in contemporary experience.
He has a much kinder measuring system. How does God see you? This is very different from the way people size us up and from the way we compare ourselves to others. In Luke , there is a beautiful story of a poor widow who comes to the Temple and stops to give her offering. Jesus is watching.
She only puts in two small coins. So many others pass by and also put offering in the box, theirs being much more than hers but also what they could easily spare. In a book called Freedom From Addiction by Dr. Neil T. What is written underneath this title can also be found on bookmarks sold by Dr. Here are a few samples:. When we read the truth from the Bible about who we are to God and who we are in Christ, it helps to chase a way the lies about our worth.
God sees you with eyes of love. Be blessed. For more about the heart of God for us, read this article, Papa.
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