HOW DO YOU SEE YOURSELF?

2 Peter 1:4 NKJ “by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

The Bible says we are partakers of divine nature and have escaped the corruption in the world through lust. There are promises in the Bible for us to partake of, but how do we see ourselves?  Many of the Israelites could not enter into the Promised Land, because they saw themselves as grasshoppers (Numbers 13:33). The Bible says they “limited the Holy One of Israel” (Psalm 78:41). If you are truly going to experience God’s will for your life, you need to see yourself the way He sees you. You have to see yourself through the realty of the redemptive work of Christ. You have to have a full knowledge of who you have become in Christ Jesus through His sacrifice if you are to partake fully of the promises and benefits of redemption.  You have to see yourself the way God sees you through the finished work of Christ. God saw Gideon as a mighty man of valor, but he saw himself differently (Judges 6:12-15).  Many Christians are in this same situation today, forgetting that our sufficiency is in Christ. In Christ we have been delivered from power of sin and authority of darkness (Romans 6:14, Ephesians 1:17, Colossians 1:13-14, Galatians 3:13, Hebrews 2:14-15).  We are saints (1 Corinthians 1:30, 2 Corinthians 5:21). We are blessed in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). We are seated with Christ in highest place of power (Ephesians 1:19-23, Ephesians 2:6). The greater one lives in us (1 John 4:4). We have access to abundant life (John 10:10).  We are joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17). See yourself as God’s sees you!