November 10, 2010

• How Heaven Sees You

  Judges 6:11b-12 – Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.  When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”

  Gideon was a farmer who feared the nation of the Midianites so much that he hid in a winepress when he threshed his grain.  He had an inferiority complex to the point that he believed he wasn’t just the weakest of his family, but that he was the weakest of his entire tribe.  And yet when the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, hiding in the winepress, the angel greeted him with, “The Lord is with you mighty warrior.”

  Here in the kingdom of earth you are called a mighty warrior after you’ve fought and won many battles.  But in the kingdom of heaven you are called a mighty warrior before you’ve done anything.  We have to understand that the true reality is heaven.  God is eternal.  Our lives here are momentary.  Nations and people come and go here on earth, but heaven continues forever.  God knew you before time.  He knows you now.  And He knows you forever.  He knows your past.  He knows your future.  He knows who you truly are.  If I knew Michael Jordan when Michael Jordan was seven years old and told him, “You are a basketball champion.  You are the greatest player to play the game,” people would have laughed at me.  But we now know who Michael Jordan is and that he truly is a basketball champion.  His high school coach cut him from the varsity level team.  His high school coach didn’t see a basketball champion in Michael Jordan then.  But now he does.  The world has yet to see the real you.  Only God and those led by the Spirit can see.  We have to trust that God knows better.
  
  We can’t form our identity around what we are doing right now.  We have to form our identity by who heaven says we are.  Gideon was a farmer.  He formed his identity around being a farmer and being just another person in the crowd.  But heaven saw a mighty warrior, a judge for the nation of Israel.  You likely see yourself right now as a student, a teacher, an office worker, or whatever job you might have.  But how does heaven see you?
  

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