Have you ever seen the show "Who Do You Think You Are?"
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A TV series by that name was made popular in the US in 2010 by using DNA to find loved ones etc of celebrates. I don't think there is any argument that the testing of DNA has picked up momentum in more then just the celebrates as it has become available to anyone that has a desire to find out who their ancestors were or other facts about their health and so on in the ensuing years since the TV program first aired.
This post is not for the propose of advertising companies that provide DNA services However, the title does pose an interesting question. .
Who Do you Think You Are?
Perhaps our feelings about ourselves go back to our childhood days. We might say to ourselves: We are not pretty enough. We aren't smart enough. We aren't talented like other kids are.
We just aren't......
We aren't anything. And as we grow, if we let it, the devil can use those feelings keep us in that barbed wire fence because our self-esteem is so low, that we just do not have any confidence that we are anything but a body that is taking up space until our time is up on earth.
Remember that scene in the Disney Movie, where the Queen asks the mirror, "Whose the fairest of them all?"
Perhaps if she had been a real person, the queen would have had a little too much confidence in herself. But the fact is, for those of us that don't have any self-confidence in ourselves, we don't even look in a mirror and ask what God thinks of us.
And really, that is sad....
because it his opinion that out ranks anyone else's thoughts about who we are, how good we might be, how pretty, smart or talented we are, and everything else about us. And it even trumps our own feelings about ourselves.
So what does God think of his creation of humanity? We have to admit, as we look around, some of it has gone to the dogs. But, are we a hopeless cause in his eyes? Can we change our attitudes about us to line up with his. Or are we doomed to having the negative thoughts that we think about ourselves, and for some even the self hate that might come from those thoughts as we are locked into that fence that jabs at us because we buy into those things that we hear the devil telling us.
We can learn a lot about what he thinks of it and about our own selves as individuals. That is if we take the time to read his word and believe it. Jesus says to learn from him in Mathew 11:29 because why? Because when we do, we will find rest for our souls.
Isn't that what we need in this world? To find rest for our souls. Sometimes it begins with how we view ourselves as God does. When we find that rest in him, it can only make us happier people. Happier in our family, jobs and happier in our world.
Do you need to learn from him what he thinks of you? Come back tomorrow and I will share some scriptures with you that will give you the confidence that you need in him. If you let them.
Thanks for coming by today Friends. Have a blessed day!
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