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Seeing Yourself the Way God Sees You
You were dead in trespasses and sins, but God made us alive together with Christ. (Ephesians 2:1-5)
The way you see things can be called your worldview. It’s the way you look at things, your belief system that causes you to see things a certain way, your perspective on everything, the grid by which you judge everything to determine if it is right or wrong. Everybody has a worldview. It’s the way you look at everything. Liberals tend to be liberal about everything and conservatives seem to be conservative about everything. Your worldview explains to you why things happen the way they do.
But there’s only one worldview that is correct and that is God’s. The way He sees things are the way they truly are. He is the truth and any other viewpoint is error. What we need to do is see things from God’s viewpoint. How does the all-knowing, ever-present and all-wise God look at everything? We find that in the Bible. The way God sees things is wisdom indeed.
The Bible shows us how God sees mankind in general and you in particular. God knows you better than you know yourself. We can be deceived. We can even deceive ourselves and the devil is always around to see that you don’t see things God’s way, or you don’t see yourself the way God sees you. He doesn’t want you to see yourself the way God sees you if you are lost and he doesn’t want you to see yourself the way God sees you if you are saved.
Ephesians chapter two tells us how God sees you without Christ and how He sees you in Christ. I want to point out the contrast between the two.
I. How God Sees Every Lost Person , v.1-3,11-12
And this means every lost person: moral, ethical and “good” lost person and every depraved murderer, thief, liar, no matter how despicable he or she may be. Paul was the moralist of men who lived according to the law of God “blameless.” He had a zeal for God according to God’s law. But Paul includes himself in this list of dark and depraved characteristics listed here. He says, “Among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, just as others.” (v.2)
There are differences of decay in the human race, but we are all dead in trespasses and sins. Some are worse than others, but we are all under the power of this sinful world, the prince of the power of the air, and our sinful flesh. The only difference between one sinner and another is the degree of decay, moral decay.
The lost person is dead to God but there are some things he is very much alive to. He is alive to “the course of this world.” He is alive to “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works…” That is, the devil. He listens to his lies. He is alive to the “desires of the flesh.” They are responsive to the world, the flesh and the devil, even if they are unaware of it.
But we are all dead to God. W
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