Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."
With a new look
How Do You See Yourself?
I don’t want answers like, “By looking in the mirror.” No. But many people see themselves the way their peers view them. Bullies like to control people’s lives and make sure those people don’t see themselves as worth a better status in life than themselves.
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I was bullied in school, according to them I wouldn’t go anywhere in life. But when I met Jesus and I began to listen to God’s people I began to see myself as something more than what the bullies said. Then when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit (enveloped by and anointed in the Spirit of God) I began to listen to God (Spirit to spirit, Heart to heart); so, then I began to see myself the way God sees me.
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See, it all depends upon who you listen to the majority of the time and who you give credence to. Are you going to listen to and value the opinion of bullies, other friends, religious preachers, or God? “Religious preachers or God? I thought religious preachers preach God’s word. So, wouldn’t what the preachers say be what God says?” someone may ask. Actually, not necessarily. They should be preaching God’s word but, unfortunately, they can get misaligned with the word also.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children, (Hosea 4:6 King James Version).
In this verse God is talking to the preachers who were supposed to be delivering His word to His people. Today it is the same thing, except now we can go directly to God and hear from Him. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not calling preachers obsolete. What I am saying, writing, is that you need to check out what the preacher says.
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How many different versions and translations of the Bible are there? Have you ever wondered why there are so many, and all the time there are more and more paraphrases? It is because not one of the previously translated versions has everything right. “Why is that?” The answer is so simple that it’s usually missed. Jesus spoke in a dialect of Hebrew and Aramaic, Paul had his letters written in ancient Greek, some of the epistles were written in ancient Hebrew and some in Greek, they were all translated, as well as possible, into Latin many, many years ago. And who really knows what happened to the original manuscript, it was lost as far as I know. Then someone took that Latin and translated it into another language and then into Elizabethan English. How much of the original manuscript was retained? If some people didn’t take the initiative to clarify and translate under the directions of the Holy Spirit we would all be in a mess because even Elizabethan English is very hard to understand. That language is dead as far as I am concerned anyway, I don’t speak it: do you? In other words: Is it a ‘God’s word’ Bible or is it a ‘religiously acquired’ Bible? Think and think seriously before you answer.
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There is a scripture where Paul declares himself as a sinner, but there is also a scripture where Paul says,
“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” (2 Corinthians 5:17 New Living Translation).
One of those old things that has passed away is the sinner mentality. So, what are you saying about yourself because that is how you see yourself? Do you agree with religious preachers who might call you a ‘sinner saved by grace,’ or do you agree with God who calls you his child and not an old sinner? What do you agree with, what do you say about yourself, how do you see yourself?