How God Sees You

How does God see you? Look into the word of truth to see. Then, you will understand who you really are. The word of truth is your Bible. God gives you understanding through His word of truth. The Bible reveals how God sees you.

See yourself as someone who has sinned against God. You may not like to think of yourself as a sinner, but the mirror shows only the truth. All of us can say, "I have sinned." To sin is to miss God's goal for your life. That goal is to bring glory to God. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).

Don't stop now. Look into the word of truth again. See yourself as someone whom God loves. See yourself at the cross of Jesus. See that He died in your place and for your sins. That's how much God loves you. There is no way that you could be loved more. You can say, "I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).

Now, look into the word of truth one more time. Understand that your life has purpose in Christ. You are a new creation in Christ. God has work for you to do. He has plans for you. "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).

When You Trust Christ

"In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation" (Ephesians 1:13). Trusting Christ is faith in Him based upon the gospel. It is your salvation in Christ. That word salvation means deliverance. Christ delivers you from the condemnation, guilt, and shame of your sins. He delivers you from all the powers of darkness in your life.

Salvation is received, when you trust Christ. Salvation is your deliverance from spiritual death (Ephesians 2:1), the condemnation of your sins (Romans 8:1), and the powers of darkness (Ephesians 6:12). He does for you what you could never do for yourself. 

When you trust Christ, your life is changed. For He alone can change you, "that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory" (Ephesians 1:12). Your life brings glory to Christ, because He is doing in you what you could never do for yourself.

When you trust Christ, you are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise (Ephesians 1:13). The Spirit of Christ indwells every believer (Romans 8:9). Christ works in you through the Holy Spirit. You have received the three abiding gifts of the Holy Spirit, which are faith, hope, and love (1 Corinthians 13:13).