ARE YOU GOD?

 

This is a question my husband has been asked many times in the ministry. Wow, what a powerful question. Each of us needs to ask ourselves the question, just to see how it makes us feel. Write down your response on a piece of paper. When I ask myself that question I realize how much I fall short of being all I need to be. 

Many of the children in our churches look up to us as being way higher than we could ever obtain. But the truth is still there, they are watching every move we make, everything we say, the clothes we wear, the smile on our faces and how much we love other people.

I had a small child draw a picture of me the other day and it really made me stop and think. Does she really see me like this?

It would be nice if everyone saw me this way. The picture she drew had awkward features but the one thing stood out the most was the smile on my face. I asked myself, "Do I really smile so much and that big to where she remembers it as a features that stands out?

It was the first thing you noticed when you looked at the picture. Is that the first thing other people notice when they see me? If not, this is something to work on.

What do people see when they look at you?

It would be a great thing for every Christian to ask five children to draw a picture of them. The picture will be as they perceive you, as children tend to be very honest. The picture of me was from just one child and it makes me wonder what I would get if I received four more pictures.

Some children see us in their mind as wearing a police hat, holding a club in our hand, or being a nurse. We may not have a job doing that but in their minds that is all they see.

Would it not make us examine our lives more closely if we actually thought others saw us as being God?

Would we try to be more loving, helpful and supportive if others looked at us this way?

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. (Romans 12:1-3)