He sees you in the Beloved—He sees you in Christ, and He sees the blood that has been shed for you by His dear Son. When God looks at you today, He sees Jesus. Because of this, His thoughts toward you are thoughts of loving-kindness, forgiveness, blessings, and favor.
And so, what does God think of us? Jeremiah 29:11-12 assures us that His thoughts are not of evil, rather they are of peace and hope. He wants to give us a future where desires are fulfilled and blessings abound. He is not in His throne room grumbling and complaining over our choices and actions.
The Lord watches over you—the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm—he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore (Psalm 121:5-8 NIV).
The Bible portrays them as self-conscious, willful, innovative entities who, under God, preside over their environment. In other words, they are persons. God made each male and female a person in the likeness of His own personhood.
The biblical view is that man is a unity; he is a unity of soul, body, flesh, mind, etc., all together constituting the whole man.
Regardless of what others say or do, our identity rests secure in who God says we are. He says we are beloved. He says we are cherished for who we are in His eyes, not because of something we've done or not done. We are precious in His sight, one-of-a-kind, created for a unique purpose.
Through the death and miraculous resurrection of Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in your life, God sees Jesus when he sees you. There are many reasons to praise God, both found in scripture and out of our personal experience with Him.
Moses Spoke to God Face to Face
In this context, Moses asked to see God's glory. In essence, God responded, “Alright, but not My face revealed in full glory of My goodness. If that were to happen, you would be so radically changed on every level that no one could relate to you anymore.
Therefore, God hears each and all of our specific petitions through the filter of Jesus' role. In other words, God understands all our different requests through the filter of “this will reconcile them; this will make them holy,” and that is the prayer God hears and the request God always grants.
You're unconditionally loved.
God doesn't say, “I love you if” or “ I love you because.” He says, “I love you — period!” You can't make God stop loving you, because his love is not based on what you do but on who he is. Isaiah 54:10 says, “The mountains and hills may crumble, but my love for you will never end” (GNT).
- God makes himself known through Divine Revelation—is God's making himself known to us. o God makes himself known to us through his mighty deeds and his interaction with his people throughout time.
He Sees Your Tears
When we feel fear, sadness, or despair, our vocabulary of words just can't seem to communicate as well as weeping does. But, God sees your tears. He hears your cry. He is mindful of what scares you and stresses you and saddens you.
Despite the emphasis placed upon our physical appearance by the world, God sees more than our physical appearance. He looks at our hearts and our intentions. God has already declared each of us beautiful as we are His wonderful creations (Psalm 139:13-16). When God created us, He created us in His image (Genesis 1:27).
Moses saw God face-to-face upon an unknown mountain sometime after he spoke to the Lord in the burning bush but before he went to free the children of Israel from Egypt (see Moses 1:1–2, 17, 25–26, 42; see also Exodus 3:1–10).
Abstract. In the Bible, St. Paul (Saul of Tarsus) was struck blind by a light from heaven. Three days later his vision was restored by a "laying on of hands." The circumstances surrounding his blindness represent an important episode in the history of religion.
"We can't see God because it's easy for you to see somebody and believe he or she is real. God wants us to be strong and not see but still believe and for us to have faith in him." Yes, the eyes of faith!
Although God reveals Himself to all people through their reason and built-in desires, He revealed Himself in a special and powerful way directly to the Hebrews (Jews). --God chose a small, weak, sinful people to teach them about Himself, and to prepare them for the coming of Christ.
A God-given vision points to God!
However, when God gives us a vision, the vision is often something that would be impossible if left simply to our human ability. Good ideas on their own will come up short, which is why God invites us to partner with Him by bringing our ideas and using them according to His plan.
Prayerfully study the following scriptures: Amos 3:6–7. Amos teaches that the Lord reveals his secrets to his servants the prophets.
The most striking difference between Christian and Muslim theologies is that while, for Christians, God is a person, Muslims worship an impersonal deity. Despite the importance of this difference for a host of theological issues, it is a difference which has gone largely unnoticed by Christians and Muslims alike.
More often than not, God uses the people He has placed in our lives to speak to us. Over the years, those who have heard His voice have recorded what He has had to say in His written word, the Bible. God continues to speak through the words that were written.