1 Peter 2:5-6

As you come to him, the living Stone rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:5-6

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

How We Are Seen

Who are you?  There is always a difference between perception and reality.  A while back a series of pictures/posters were on facebook with captions like, what the public thinks I do and so forth.  They played on the different perceptions seen inside and outside of a profession.


The problem comes when we start defining ourselves based on the perceptions that others have of us.  We aren't smart enough or rich enough, or tall enough or popular enough.   Society is quick to put us into molds and define us based on what they think we are or what we can be.  God has another view of us.


This goes a step further than being true to yourself.  Sure, we want to resist the pigeon holes that society places on us.  We want to set our own course and do what is in out hearts.  But God offers us more.

Who we truely are and do is good.  But seeing ourselves through God's eyes, not for what we are but for what we can become, is not the world's good.  It's God's best.

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