“Your eyes are windows into your body.  If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light.” 

Matt.  6:22

  “I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe.” 

Eph.  1:18-19 

 1 BECAUSE  OF GRACE GOD SEES ME AS ACCEPTABLE

•  “Jesus treated us much better than we deserve.  He made us acceptable to God and gave us the hope of eternal life.”  Titus 3:7 
• “God saved us – not because we were good enough to be saved but because of His kindness and grace – by washing away our sins …  all because of what Jesus Christ our Savior did, so that He could declare us good in God’s eyes.” Titus 3:5-7
• “You have been chosen by God Himself.”  1 Pet.  2:9
• “Even if my mother and father forsake me, the Lord will receive me.”  Ps.  27:10

2. BECAUSE OF GRACE GOD SEES ME AS LOVABLE

• “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”  John 3:16 (NIV)
• “The mountains and hills may crumble but My love for you will never end; so says the Lord who loves you.”  Isa.  54:10

3. BECAUSE OF GRACE GOD SEES ME AS FORGIVABLE

• “Long ago, even before He made the world, God chose us to be His very own through what Christ would do for us; He decided then to make us holy in His eyes, without a single fault – we who stand before Him covered with His love.”  Eph.  1:4
• “I am the God who forgives your sins, and I do this because of who I am.  I will not hold your sins against you.”  Isa.  43:25

4. BECAUSE OF GRACE GOD SEES ME AS CAPABLE

• “The capacity we have comes from God; it is He who made us capable of serving the new covenant…”   2 Cor. 3:5-6)
• “Using the Scriptures, the person who serves God will be capable, having all that is needed to do every good work.”  2 Tim. 3:17 (NCV)
• “I have strength for all things in Christ who empowers me – I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses inner strength into me, that is, I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency!”  Phil. 4:13 •