God Is For Us

I was thinking this morning about Romans 8:31 "What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"

How do I view Jesus? That is a very good question, because how I view the creator of all things. Jesus is the one who died for my sins, to set me free from myself, from my human choices, my human thinking, to bring me alive in Him. If I view Jesus as just a man, than I am not allowing Jesus to be real in me. I believe how I see Him can change how I think. 

I will explain. If there is a problem at work, I look at the problem as a mountain, I will become dismayed, down hearted and I will allow my anxiety and worry to get the best of me. I will worry and dread that problem no matter what size it really is. I will think on that problem every thought will go to that problem. When the task is finally completed, the one I spent days and nights worrying about and I finished the task and look back on it, I see that the problem was not all that I had made it to be, it was in fact much smaller than I had originally thought, because as a human I tend to make things bigger than they are. But with God, I tend to make Him smaller than He is. 

If I had take a step back to see the problem was not worth worrying about, because if I turned it over to God, than who could stand against me. The devil will try to steal my very joy every chance he gets. He will remind me of the things that seem like mountains, but God has written about that in His good book. He has said in Matthew 17:20 "He replied, "Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."" All I need to have faith, faith that my Father has everything under control. I need to see my Father as the one that can move mountains, I need to see Him as the one that can turn a bad situation into good, because He is God. I need to stop looking at Him as some thing I hope on, but something that I trust in. He is the only way, not my way. Worry and doubt will consume me, but Jesus will transform me to a thinking that is far greater than I can ever imagine, but I have to see God as something greater and more than just something I pray to. I have to see Him as my savior, my Lord, there to Help me in good times and bad. He will direct me, if I allow Him to, but I have to lay down the way I saw Him to the way He wants me to view Him. I think of the scripture Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction." and Proverbs 9:10 "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." If in fact I realize that God is the one that can transform me, transform my thinking, change me, than I must realize who He is and stop making my problems bigger than Him. He is the one that chose me, made me and has called me. I need to have reverence and respect for Him. Am I more concerned about how others view me than I worry about how God views me and my actions? Isn't it time to realize how God views me is so much more important than the world, how He views my choices, my words, my thoughts, because He knows them all.

How are you viewing Jesus Christ? Is He just someone that was once human, a small teacher, nothing more than that? If that is how you view Him, realize that He is the in fact God. He sits on the thrown at the right hand of God. He is and will always be 3 in 1. He is there to help, guide and make my path light, because He is and will always be my God and my Savior.