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Seeing Yourself Through His Eyes Series
Contributed by Steve Malone on Feb 18, 2020 (message contributor)
Summary: So many of us for various reasons when we look at ourselves the image is distorted, but when we see ourselves through the eyes of the Father's love (when we make our Maker our mirror) that distortion is driven away.
I am not just a criminal, I am not just a useless human being, a thief only worthy of death… No, I am one he invites to go with Him to paradise… (The thief on the cross)
To those and others, to lepers, sinners, demon possessed, tax collectors sinners and prostitutes Jesus saw them who they really were…. AND – the good news is, the great news is that Jesus (just as invited them) He invites us to look into the same mirror that He himself looked into as he walked this earth…
God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die. – John 3:16
the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe that I came from God. John 16:27
UNDERSTAND – today February 2, 2020, The Father is once again ripping open the heavens…
AND – He is saying it’s not you, it’s the mirror that you have been looking in…
Choose to see yourself though my eyes…
• You are my child
• The One I love
• The One I adopted into my family
• The one I chose before the foundations of the earth were even laid
• You are the one who though you have flaws and failures are still worthy of my grace.
• Worthy even of the death of the Son that I love…
MGCC – we need to look in a different mirror…
The mirror of our Father’s love and acceptance.
AND LISTEN – to do that…
To hear His voice you need to be in the Word…
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand. And when I wake up, you are still with me!
- Psalm 139:14-18
QUESTION – who made you?
My maker is my mirror!
Listen, if they did not make you they do not get to define you!
YES – once again… at this very moment the father is ripping open the sky and inviting you to see yourself through His eyes, and through His unrelenting love!
