This past week has felt more like a soap opera than real life. And today, I felt like a needed a reminder of how God sees me, rather than how I see myself. My blog may be a bit long this week, but perhaps we all need a reminder of how powerful, beautiful, and whole we are through Christ.

• God loves me so much that he made me a co-heir with Christ. Imagine inheriting a part of God’s assets! How awesome is that? Romans 8:16-17 says, “The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”
• I don’t have to worry or be anxious about my future, because God has it all under control. He’s given me my skills, talents, and abilities. Any plan I could create would be inferior to his. Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
• God sees me as a precious daughter, someone to be treasured. Proverbs 31:10 says, “An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.”
• Older women have a responsibility to encourage young women. What better purpose could I ask for? I love nothing more than encouraging my daughter and granddaughters. I also loved mentoring the younger women at work. Titus 2:3-5 says, “Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.”
• What I see in the mirror doesn’t reflect what God sees when He looks at me. I find that to be lifesaving and comforting. He doesn’t compare me to others, or expect me to be more than I am. Psalm 139:14 says, “I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

The Bible is full of other wonderful examples of how God sees us—I just chose a few. But he loves me enough to adopt me, to be one of his many heirs. I can rest assured in my future, because I know God has a plan for my life. I’m so precious to him that I’m incomparable to anything in this world. God sees me as perfect, someone to be treasured and loved. And do you know what the best news is? He sees you the same, exact way.