Conclusion
Part one and two
What do you think God sees when he looks at you? Do you think he sees the sulky young person your parents sometimes see or do you think he sees something greater? Do you think you can become what God wants you to be? Get a picture in your mind of how you think God sees you. Think about how much he loves you. Think about how much your parents love you. Don’t you think someone who loves you wants the best for you? Start to see a different you than you are right now. Begin to work on becoming the person God wants you to be. Ask him to help you to see yourself as he sees you.
When God looks at us he’s not seeing us as we are. He is seeing the much more we can become if we stay close to him.
Gideon allowed God’s vision of him to wipe out the vision he had of himself. At the end of the seventh chapter in Judges we no longer see the defeated Gideon we met in chapter six. By the end of chapter seven he was the mighty warrior that God had named him in chapter six. However although God saw Gideon as a mighty warrior Gideon had to step out in faith and began working towards becoming what God had already seen him as. So God spoke it, Gideon believed it and Gideon worked towards it and then he became it.
A note to parents
Parents, before your children can see themselves as God sees them they have to know how you see them. It’s hard for them to imagine this beautiful, positive image the creator has of them if their earthly parents don’t have the same image. Are you saying things to them that will cause them to see themselves in a positive light? When you say hurtful things to them that goes beyond discipline do you ever apologize?
If you want your children to have a relationship with God then they have to have a relationship with you in their home first because they will see God through the same eyes that they see you through so I ask, what image of God do they have?.
Youth's Sunday
May 15, 2005
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It is so easy for me to come down hard on my kids without even thinking of how it is making them feel about themselves. Do I take it past just discipline and begin to beat down the spirit of my children. I am afraid I do too many times. Thanks Bernadine for this post.
Wow - Bernadine - that is very powerful. I agree that we have to have some positive affirmation toward our children, but we also have to have discipline - I think I have lacked the later part on some occasions.
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