Wednesday Night Devo!

Paraphrased from Wednesday night church, Church at The Cross, Pastor Pete Brooks

What do you think God thinks about you?

1. On good days, we think God thinks about us well, and vice versa.
2. We think the way others thinks about us is what God thinks about us.
3. Our culture says performance plays highly, so if performance is bad, then we think God thinks lowly about is.

But that is simply not right it is not about what we do or what we have done, because He loves us regardless. God is not like us, he does not think like we do, no matter what we have said, done, or said. He STILL loves us. Jesus liked people that were not like Him, but not only that people that were not like them (sinful) had people liked Him!

 (Luke 15:1) Tax Collectors and Sinners sat around Him and wanted to hear His every word. But the Pharisees did not like this, because these people were not righteous in their sight.

Jesus tells them the Parable of the lost sheep and the lost coin. He then tells the story that rocked their world, The Parable of the Prodigal Son. (Read the Parable in Luke 15) To go to your father in that time and ask for your inheritance before he was dead was a slap in the face. Both parties could relate to this story. This story could be  applied to all in the audience, and that was the genius of His stories. SO the sun builds his case, and goes back to his father. His father was filled with compassion. Both parties were stunned, the sinners and the Pharisees! Then they celebrated his return, imagine how the audience thought at this point. God wanted the audience to change their view about how God thought about them! Not that they had to do all these things to earn His favor, but that no matter what He loves them!

So after this how do you think God thinks of you?