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3…HE DIED FOR YOU

Good morning! Whose eyes do you see yourself through? Do you see yourself through your own eyes, as though you were looking in a mirror, or maybe it’s through the people you’re trying to please? From my experience, both of these perspectives will leave you lacking. When we look through our own eyes, aren’t we pretty critical? Isn’t there always something that we see that’s not right? And if we’re looking through other’s eyes as we try to please them...well, we can forget that, too. That saying we’ve all heard is so true. “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” Trying to please others is often a no-win situation. In this life, we need to concern ourselves with pleasing the Lord, plain and simple. If we keep our focus on the Lord, then we won’t have to concern ourselves with pleasing anyone else.

Feeling as though you belong is one of those basic needs we all have, but it’s often just that, a feeling. But when you belong to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, you are in the perfect place. You don’t have to rely on your feelings. You can be assured of this fact every single day. I recently received a t-shirt that said, “I might not be perfect but Jesus thinks I’m to die for.” And scripture backs that up. John 3:16 states that fact this way. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” If you were the only sinner to have ever been born, Jesus would still have died for you. So isn’t it time for us to see ourselves the way the Lord sees us and not worry about other’s opinions. Jesus sees us worth dying for.

Lord, it is so easy to get wrapped up in what others think about us and when that happens we spend way too much time trying to keep that image alive. Help us see that the only one we need to please is You. Once we do that, no one else’s opinion will drive us. Amen.