One of our squad leaders came to stay with us for a few days. One evening she led a worship night for us. She played thought provoking music in the background and gave us a few personal questions to take before God. I went and sat in the doorway and watched life take place from my front door that evening. It was after dark, bugs buzzed around the store lights, cats lazily perused the allies, and good music played in my ears.
The first questions was ‘Ask the Lord what he sees in you”. So I sat there and began to pray. I asked, but I didn’t like the answer. He kept telling me ‘the world’ over and over. Great. That’s pretty much the exact opposite of what any Christian wants to hear the Lord say about them. Scripture calls us to be in the world but not of the world and here God was telling me he sees the world in me. As you can imagine, I quickly moved on to the next question and didn’t revisit the first.
After about an hour of conversing with the Lord we met back together to discuss how our time with God went. As I sat there trying to listen to the others share I had a revelation about my first question.
The Answer ties into an earlier prayer time I had experienced recently. A week earlier one of my teammates had walked us all through an exercise on entering Gods thrown room in prayer. While in the thrown room with God I saw the room fill up with other souls. They took up every inch of the massive room and I watched completely overwhelmed as they cried out to him, whaled, moaned, sang, and danced; some were joyous, some were very distressed. I was frustrated that it wasn’t just the two of us in there, I felt like I wasn’t noticed or special to him, and left.
As I sat there listening to my teammates talk about what God said he saw in them I realized what he had been trying to say to me and it made me feel very special and very loved. He sees the world in me. He lives in me and therefore gets to see the world through me the way I see it. By dwelling within me God gets to experience his creation in a way that is only possible through me. And he loves it! He loves the way I see and experience the world, my excitement for life and appreciation of the beauty around me, how I play and interact with my surroundings. I am the only vessel in which he gets to experience the world in this particular way and that makes me incredibly unique and important to him.
I think about how much we love to live life together, how much joy and excitement we find in the little things together. How he wants nothing more than to share his glorious creation with me just because he loves me and he loves living life within me.
‘Lord, what do you see in me?’
‘The world.’
I encourage all who read this to ask God this question for yourself.
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