TEXT: JUDGES 6:13-16
God is seeing you differently in a way that nobody is
seeing; in fact He is seeing you differently in a way that you are not seeing
yourself. People may be seeing you as a nobody, a never do well, weak and lazy
and so on, you might have also accepted the way people are seeing you, by
seeing yourself that way. Until you start to see yourself the way God is seeing
you that you will manifest the way God wants you to manifest.
When the Midianites were oppressing the Israelites by
invading their country, destroying their crops, even their animals were not
spared. The Israelites needed help from the lord so that they can be delivered
from the oppression, God decided to use Gideon, but he saw himself as a weak
and a nobody. “The lord is with you mighty warrior" (Judges 6:12). God saw in
him what neither him nor anybody saw in him. His reply confirmed that he did not
see himself through God’s eyes. “The lord turned to him and said “Go in the STRENGTH YOU HAVE and save Israel out
of Midian’s hand am I not sending you? But lord Gideon asked, how can I save
Israel? My tribe is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
(Judges 6: 14-15). He saw himself as a weak and an irrelevant person to solve
the problem in Israel, but God saw in him a mighty man with full strength! God encouraged him by assuring him that His
presence will be with him.
After God’s word of assurance to Gideon, he started seeing
himself as the warrior that God called him. He went to fight and he defeated
the Midianites. When God called Moses to go and deliver the Israelites in
Egypt, he started giving excuses that he cannot speak very well, he is too
small to face Pharaoh, but when God assured Moses that He would be with Him, he
got the courage to embark on the journey of delivering God’s people.
We need not to accept how people sees us, don’t see
yourself that you are nothing or that there are things that you cannot do,
because the scripture says we can do all things through Christ that strengthens
us (Philippians 4:13). Do not limit yourself, don’t write yourself off, go to
God today and ask Him to help you to see yourself through His eyes so that you
can fulfil destiny.
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