THROUGH GOD'S LENSES

I am afraid that my visions for my life will not come to pass because I am insecure about my abilities. Before I wrote that sentence, I was about to write something like, “I am afraid of my visions for my life because what if they are not God’s visions for my life”. However, this statement victimizes me and goes against God’s promises for me as His child.

Whenever I get anxious like this about my dreams or goals, it always helps me to take a step back and look at my life and myself from God’s point of view. I remember finding an email from Joel Osteen and it was titled, “How Do You See Yourself” with a subtitle, “The Truth About You!”. It read:

Kaitlin,

I want to help you have a new mindset and take hold of something today that God has already given you!

There is a powerful promise in Psalm 8:5, and it says you are crowned with glory and honor!

This crown represents God’s blessings and favor on your life and the authority, anointing, and access He has given you.

You may wonder what it means to wear your crown. Wearing your crown is. . .

Believing you are accepted, chosen, and loved.  Choosing to move forward in faith and favor.  Receiving that you get to live from a place of victory!

Kaitlin, your crown of honor was put there by your Creator!

When you personally receive this truth, you will begin to see yourself as God sees you — a champion and a child of the King!

I have read this letter to myself so many times. It has been necessary. One MAJOR thing I noticed about this letter is that it has absolutely nothing to do with my outer appearance, career field, the amount of money in my account, my shoes, my clothes, nothing.

The way God sees his children is very objective (a person or their judgement not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts). What God sees about us and what he wants to do in our lives is not determined by our limitations or perceived flaws. Who God says that we ARE is not influenced by “personal feelings or opinions” it is a statement of fact. In other words, it just is… what it is.

You can’t change how God feels about you, you can only change how you feel about you. How God sees us is permissive (allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behavior). So, looking back to this letter and even searching God’s word for scriptures, He is very vague but direct. He gives us freedom to choose, either his way or our own way. He doesn’t force us into it or condemn us, we are free to choose.

He doesn’t give us a full life manual with step- by- step directions because He doesn’t need to. He wants us to look at our lives through his lenses.

God gives us just what we need when we need it. I believe that there are 2 lenses that God gives us when pursuing our dreams and goals:

1. His agenda

2. His perspective about us

That’s all we really need because at the end of it all, as His children, we are working for His kingdom and His glory. In the bible he tells us “seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you” (Mathew 6:33).

So, as the anxiety about my dreams or goals persist, I fight back by remembering who God says I am and what His agenda is.

At the end of the day, that’s all the fuel I need to say, “you know what, I may not know what the end outcome for myself will be, but I am going to do what’s in my heart that pertains to furthering His Kingdom and let him worry about everything else”. He’s bigger than me, He’s got me, AND He’s promised me a good future, so hey, my future is looking bright no matter what.

I may never be secure in my own abilities, but I can always be secure in God’s abilities. I am victorious

-Kaitlin Alexander