How Does God See You?

Ready to see yourself as God sees you? Ready to be who God made you to be?

Who did God say was like a sea monster?

God told Ezekiel that the Pharaoh of Egypt compared himself to a young lion.

But God said that image was wrong.

God said the Pharaoh was actually like a sea monster—muddying the waters with his feet, and fouling the rivers. (See Ezekiel 29:3-7; 32:1-2.)

It might seem pretty easy to discern that a mortal who claimed that he had created the Nile (see Ezekiel 29:3, 9, 19) wasn’t seeing things as God sees them.

But consider Moses, who didn’t see what God saw, either.

Moses was a humble man (Numbers 12:3). But his view of himself wasn’t right, either.

God saw Moses as a speaker. (See Exodus 6:11, 29.)

But Moses did not see himself as God saw him. (See Exodus 4:10; 6:30.)

Even after God explained, Moses refused to see himself God’s way. And God was angry about that. (See Exodus 4:10-17.)

Wow. So even a humble individual who is trying to follow God can be in need of God’s perspective. And God feels strongly about this!