Who are you in Christ?

Who are you? I'm Debbie, daughter to my parents, wife to Lee, Mom to Brandon & Terica Natalie & Clint and Brent & Stacy, Mimi to Colton Braden and soon Nolan. I am business assitant in a dental office, children's pastor, homemaker. But who am I in Christ?

In Judges God appears to Gideon and I see Gideon's responses look so familar to me. Starting in Verse 11, "Then the angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites. 12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, “Mighty hero, the Lord is with you!” 13 “Sir,” Gideon replied, “if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn’t they say, ‘The Lord brought us up out of Egypt’? But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites.” 14 Then the Lord turned to him and said, “Go with the strength you have, and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you!”15 “But Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family!”16 The Lord said to him, “I will be with you. And you will destroy the Midianites as if you were fighting against one man.”

Gideon was hiding as he did his work from his enemies when God came to him. As Gideon cowarded from his enemies, God called him a mighty warrior. When Gideon said he was weak, God said to go in the strength you have. When Gideon saw himself as the least in the weakest clan, God spoke of a victory over his enemies. Needless to say eventually Gideon began to see himself through God's eyes and he became the mighty warrior that God first saw him as.

What about you? Are you hiding from your enemies(sometimes we are our worst enemy)? It is time we stand up and hear God's voice calling us His mighty warrior and go in the strength we have and realize that we are not alone. God is sending us and He will be with us as we face our enemies. God is simply looking for people He can work through and be glorifed through. As we step out and realize on our own we can do nothing, but realizing that through Christ all things are possible. When God says "go, I am with you" just get up and go and let God bring the victory.

I'm so glad that my distorted view of myself is not what God sees. He sees His creation, His mighty warrior, His chosen treasure. Lord help me see a glimpse of what you see in me and let me rise up and follow your plans for my life.

~Debbie~