Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley. Life can feel messy and unpredictable,

but behind it all, God is carefully crafting something beautiful. In today's episode, we'll help you

recognize the bigger picture of what God is building, even when it's not finished yet.

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 what will

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

or 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'll never be satisfied the way you used to think. So I want you to turn,

if you will, to Ephesians chapter two. And I want us to read these first 10 verses together

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