How you see yourself plays a big role in your walk with Jesus. Even the world will teach you this, but the children of God still see themselves not worthy, not good enough, but Jesus is screaming from the cross saying, “Your worth it!” Many don’t realize that the cross for Jesus was a pleasure. “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.“ When Jesus was praying to Father to take this cup away, many think that was the cross, but it wasn’t. Jesus was struggling that He had to become sin, sweating blood, and be separated from Father. “You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.” Do you want to stay separated from Father by seeing yourself as a sinner saved by grace?
The struggle that we have is in the mind. If you came into Christ being told you weren’t good enough, Jesus will change that. Then you are going to struggle your whole Christian walk. If you go to church and they tell you that you are still a sinner saved by grace, you will struggle with your walk with Jesus. Paul understood this struggle, but that’s why you have to have your mind renewed. “For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight–– if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.” How you think, and see yourself, is how you transform yourself. “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” “But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND, and that PUT ON THE NEW MAN WHICH WAS CREATED ACCORDING TO GO IN TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS.” Now, do you see how important it is how you see yourself?
I pray that the eyes of your understanding be enlightened to how you see yourself. You can no longer see yourself separated from Christ. “But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” Be blessed, my friends.
