Father's Amazing View of You

As I ministered to several people I realized how easy it is to see our deficits and the deficits of others.  As we become focused on our deficits we can become discouraged, angry at ourselves, and even despairing.  Does God really have the same view of us as we do of ourselves?  Father placed us "in Christ" (1 Corinthians 1:30) by His doing and now we have access to all that Christ is for us.  Since Father placed you "in Christ" is He going to relate to you as if you were still "in Adam"?

In being united to Christ, all your deficits, weaknesses, and even sins become the place for God to do His most brilliant work in us making for the revealing of the sons of God (Romans 8).  His power (strength) is made complete in your weakness (2 Corinthians 12), so Paul boasts in His weakness because he sees the miraculous work Christ is doing in these places.  What if in order for Jesus to get His full reward and inheritance, your deficits and weaknesses need to be places of brilliant and powerful grace.

Could it be that Father sees us glorious whole, free, fully alive in Him, and powerful.  He has given the Holy Spirit to continually take our view of ourselves to a new height, freeing us from a low earthly view.  After all we are His Beloved sons and daughters, and all creation is groaning and we are groaning inwardly for the revelation of who we truly are.  God's original plan having children in His image, has been gloriously restored in Jesus Christ and He uses everything in our life to take our view of ourselves to a new place in Him.

Romans 6 tells us that the "old self" has been crucified, meaning that God is not trying to improve this "old self" because it is dead and gone.  Part of faith is believing the old you is dead, meaning really dead. We need revelation of our "new self" in Christ, so we can be excited for who He is for us but also excited about who we are in Him.  When God wanted to rescue the world, He did not just wipe it out and start over.  He sent Christ to be the firstborn of a new race of people who have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.  The answer for the world's problems is not more government programs, more natural resources, or medical breakthroughs.  Those may come but God has invested in bringing heaven to earth through Christ dwelling in a people that will spread the glory of God over the whole earth.  The world is longing for you to see who you really are.

In Him,
Bret