Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday January 10th.

When we look at the fabric of our lives, it can appear chaotic and messy.

Today's message helps believers change perspective to better see the completed

project.

What does God see when he looks at your life. Well, he sees far more than you see. His attitude

is not the same as yours more than likely, because you see here's the difference between what God sees and what you and I see.

We see ourselves as an unfinished product.

We see ourselves, for example, if it were a portrait, as being unfinished. If it were a

tapestry unfinished. When God looks at you, he not only sees you as you are, but he sees beyond that and he sees you for what you can be,

what you will be, what he has predestined you to be.

So therefore what he sees is a person of value, a person of

worth, and a person of great promise. And yet oftentimes we don't see that and so we live chained to our

old self what we were before we became a child of God. Those old thoughts, those old ideas about ourselves,

those ideas that are no longer true of us, we still think the same way.

And therefore if we live our lives that way, here's... We still think the same way.

And therefore if we live our lives that way, here's what will happen.

You live your whole life on a level far below that which God has provided for you.

All the way God sees you. God wants you to be free from that.

He wants you to understand who you are from his viewpoint. And in order to live an extraordinary

life, a life above the average, not the normal Christian life as people compare it.

But he wants you to see yourself the way he sees you, and once you get a glimpse of that you will never be satisfied

the way you used to think.

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