God Sees the Authentic You

So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.” Then the Lord said, “Rise and anoint him; this is the one” (1 Samuel 16:11-12).

They say Michelangelo used to walk around a block of marble for days—just walking around it, talking to himself.

First he would see things in the rock; then he would go and take them out. Insight like that of a sculptor is seen in the Bible. When the world dumps and rejects you, and you land on the garbage heap of the world, God walks along and picks you up. He looks deep within you and sees a person of great worth.

Don’t ever let anybody throw you away. You are not junk. When God looks at you, He sees things that everybody else ignores. You are worth so much that Jesus went to Calvary to salvage and reclaim you. The Spirit of God connected to your spirit is the only true judge of your worth. Don’t accept the opinions of others because they do not see what God sees.

“When God looks at you, He sees things that everybody else ignores.”

— Myles Munroe

God looked at Adam and saw a world. He looked at Abraham and saw nations. In Jacob, a deceiver, He saw a Messiah. In Moses the murderer, God saw a deliverer. Can you imagine looking at a stammering young man and seeing the greatest leader in history? God saw a king in a shepherd boy. When the Israelites wanted a king, God sent Samuel to the home of Jesse. When Jesse heard why Samuel was there, he dressed up all his sons—the handsome one, the tall one, the curly-haired one, the strong one, the muscular one. All the sons of Jesse twirled out before Samuel, from the greatest to the least.

Finally, after Jesse had paraded all of his sons before him, Samuel said, “I’m sorry. None of these is God’s choice for king. Do you have any other sons?” Jesse said, “Yes, well, but this guy’s really smelly because he’s been out with the sheep for some time.” When Samuel saw David, the youngest, he said, “This is the one God wants.”