The God Who Sees | God Only Knows | Pastor Nick Person

God sees you not to indict you, but to invite you. Let me say it again. God sees you not to indict you, but invite you. See, indict is a legal term, meaning there's a case that has been built against you. And yes, we know we have fallen short. There is a case against us. But God is not looking to you to condemn you, but to invite you to be a part of his family and his story. And here's what's true, everybody. We all have fallen short. [00:32:17] (32 seconds)  #InvitedNotIndicted

You're telling God all the reasons why he can't use you, why he shouldn't invite you, why you shouldn't be called. Hear me. He knows, but you know what he does when he uses someone like us? He gets the glory. Because there's no other answer but a what a god, what a god. Only a god like that can do that. He is really good at using what we think disqualifies us. He uses it to reveal himself and get the glory. [00:44:59] (32 seconds)  #GodUsesOurFlawsForGlory

God is fully aware of what he is doing, everybody. He's fully aware of what he is getting, and he still invites you anyway. See, I saw my lack of speaking as a speech obstacle, but he saw it as a speech opportunity. Because who gets the glory for it? It's not me, it's him. He did it. And here he is with David, and he's going, I'm calling the one that wasn't invited in. Who gets the glory? God does. [00:44:30] (29 seconds)  #GodSeesOpportunity

If you think that God is just for good people who always get it right, those people don't exist. God sees you. He loves you. He is for you, and he is inviting you not to give you condemnation, but to give you invitation. And you might go, but God, if you knew all that I've done, you won't want anything to do with me. Everyone, let me just clear the air. He knows everything you have done, and he still wants you to be a part of his family. [00:32:49] (27 seconds)  #LovedDespiteFailure

See, we hear that he's good. We hear that he's kind, but maybe how we have drawn it up is we don't view him that way. We think that he is waiting for us to make a mistake so he can intervene and smite us, send the lightning, fill in the blank. But may I tell you that is not the posture of our God. We just sang about him. That is not what is true about God. God's posture is more like the prodigal son's father who is waiting on his porch to see if his child is coming home. [00:31:19] (31 seconds)  #GodWaitsToWelcome

And I wish I could tell you that that was just a story of my childhood. I wish I could tell you that I overcame that out of my adolescence. But if I'm honest with you, I still feel the same way many days. I still feel like I'm not sufficient. I still feel like I should be last picked. I still feel that I'm lacking. I still feel that I'm not good enough. And yet, I know that's not true because of the posture of God. And we're gonna see this more is that although we operate in a world that picks you as last, that's not how God operates. [00:41:44] (33 seconds)  #NotLastPickedByGod

A better posture would be, praise God that I got invited in. Can I just give you some free information? We get ourselves in trouble when we start looking at what God is doing in somebody else's life without being thankful for what he's doing in our own. And that's so hard to live out because we miss the blessing. We miss the invitation that he has given us because we go, woah. My invitation is not as good as their invitation. It's not about how you view it. It's the fact that you've been invited. [00:47:23] (29 seconds)  #GratefulForMyInvite

Here's what's interesting about this. So often when we look at our heroes of the faith, we go, man, they just had a supernatural faith. They were just willing to do the hard thing. As I survey the Bible and I look at that, they were just caught in the act of obedience, everybody. Samuel sent for David while he was being obedient to the tasks that he had been given. And so often we go, man, if I do this thing, if I do the next best thing, then I'm going to miss out. God sees you and he invites you. [00:48:00] (35 seconds)  #ObedienceOpensDoors