Since I became a Christian,
I’ve listened to sermons reminding me that God’s love is infinite and that His
grace is sufficient for all my needs.
But deep within the recesses of my mind, I sometimes struggle with memories
of the years I ran from God—lacking interest—wanting to do my own thing.
I sometimes question the depth
of His love because of the coldness I harbored before coming to Christ. I want to accept, with total belief, the sermons
I’ve heard, but on occasion an exterior force causes me to question—how can God
love a wretch like me?
The spirit of darkness tries
to blind my eyes from truth that God’s Word is infallible. If only I could see myself through His eyes
and not my own. It is when I listen to
Satan that I feel unworthy of God’s love because of my past failures. It is hard to grasp that the God of
creation—the Great I Am—personified in Jesus Christ, loved me so much that He
died on a cross for my sins.
His pain and suffering, unto
death, was the manifestation of His amazing grace and love for you and me. This agape love prevented Him from calling ten
thousand angels to free Him from the cross.
He chose to die for our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
At times, Satan throws the
muddle of my past in my face that I’m not proud of. He tries to deflect my thoughts away from the
fact that God’s mercy saved me from those sins.
The more I read the Bible and
hear messages relating to God’s love, the depth of His love becomes more real
and clearer to understand. They help me
to see myself through His eyes.
Yes, it is challenging to
ignore satanic attacks, but God is my Heavenly Father. I am His child—a sinner saved by grace—not of
my own merits or self-righteousness, but through the blood that Jesus shed on
Calvary’s cross.
(1 John 4:4), “You are of
God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is
greater than he who is in the world.”
There is no other person who
walked the face of the earth whom God recognizes as the appeasement for sin. Only Jesus, God’s Son, made it possible to
become sons and daughters of Almighty God.
When we ask God to forgive our
sins and invite Jesus into our heart, this act of faith brings forth an
abundant life in Him.
(2 Corinthians 5:17), “Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away;
behold, all things have become new.”
Do you see yourself through
God’s eyes or are your thoughts short-circuited by Satan? Do not lean upon your own understanding that
is coupled with narrow vision? Do not listen to the devil’s lie, “There is no hope for you.”
Jesus is our hope. Don’t allow Satan or anyone for that matter,
to steal the joy that God gives through His Son. Happiness awaits anyone looking for peace of
mind. It comes in the name of Jesus—the
Way, the Truth, and the Life. We live
victoriously when the Lord abides within us.
Hopelessness fades, and joy takes its place.
Yes, it may be difficult to
see ourselves through God’s eyes at times, but when we notice Satan trying to
pull the wool over our eyes and tell us that our vision of God’s love is
unfounded and that our purpose in life has no meaning, we must rebuke him in
the name of Jesus.
The devil is a liar and the
father of lies. His deceptions are
nothing more than smelly dung-heaps, having the odor of death. When we resist him, he will flee and return
to the cesspool of filth from whence he came.
His untruths will no longer bury us in the graveyard of the deceived
when we shun his attempts to distort our vision from Christ.
(James 4:7), “Therefore
submit to God. Resist the devil and he
will flee from you.”
When I choose to believe what God
says about me instead of what my past whispers, my vision clears. I no longer see a wretch—I see a redeemed
child of God. And through His eyes, I am
loved.
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Written by,
Papa Boyd
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