WE ARE WHAT WE ARE ...OR ARE WE?

Ro 4:17 As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
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God brings us back to life by allowing the Spirit of Christ to live in us, if we choose to BELIEVE. While we are still walking in darkness before we turn to Christ, our Heavenly Father calls us to something great in this life as if we are already that something great. It may be the many gifts and talents that He is giving us, or knowing that even though we are struggling with many sins, He is going to deliver us from them and we are going to become beautiful butterflies in Christ. The point is that He is looking at the beauty in us before it is even a thought in our mind. He knows who we will become in Christ. We are unable to see it but the good news is that He does. If we could only do this same thing for others. Perhaps we should choose to see potential in someone today. Give them a word of encouragement. Make it a task to pick a person to lift up in Christ. Speak blessings fourth on their lives. See them as God sees them. Whatever you see in someones life that is not the best for them, see them living it to God. Whenever we are living to God, we are living our best. In order to do this, we must see this in ourselves first. We must see who we are in God's eyes. We cannot give something we do not have. We need to give ourselves, grace, mercy, and patience. God does. God also expects us to freely give to others what He has freely given to us. Whatever measure you use, it will be measured to you (LUK 6:38). Might as well start measuring with a God sized measuring cup! :)