‘WE… ARE BEING TRANSFORMED INTO HIS LIKENESS.’ 2 COR. 3:18 NIV

A man who was feeling depressed went to see a psychiatrist. After sharing his problems he expected some profound words of wisdom that would make him feel better. Well, the psychiatrist exclaimed, I’ve diagnosed your problem. Its low self-esteem and its very common among losers! When you view your self negatively you tend to gravitate toward people who talk down to you. But when you know that God love’s you and plans…to give a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11 NLT), Y our entire outlook changes. With God you can’t lose. Even if you stumble and fall he’ll help you to get back up, learn from the experience and move on. When you look at your self you tend to see somebody who makes mistakes and falls short, right? But when you begin to look at your self in the mirror of God’s Word, you see someone being transformed into his likeness.

Ever gone to a garage sale or an antique show looking for a bargain? To the untrained eye match of the stuff looks like rubbish; it may even have been gathering dust and mildew in somebody’s attic. But the experience eye sees treasure in disguise, items that juts need to be cleaned, polished, and restored in order to become valuable again. Well, God’s the expert with a trained eye. When the enemy tells you you’re worthless. God looks inside you and sees hidden treasure. When you out him on the throne of your life He’ll enable you to overcome your past, resist temptation, breakthrough your self impost limitations, and start accepting that in His eyes you have great worth.

Evangelist Philip Jegede’s Reading Courtesy of DWFT: Jer 31-32, Luke 5:27-39, Ps 122, Pr 15:10-14