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What do others think you think of them?


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Monday, July 29, 2013
      Jeff Lampl


“ I have not stopped thanking God for you”
Ephesians 1:16 
 

How many of the people you know believe that the above passage is how you think of them?  Although Paul is thanking God for the Ephesians’ partnership in the Gospel, it seems to me that there is also a prior attitude toward people that we need to have, one of letting others in on how God delights in them.          

Does your husband or wife believe that the above passage is how you think of him or her?   Do your children think that this is what you think when you think of them?    Have you ever actually said this sentence to anyone?  How often?   Have you said it to the members of your family?          

It may be that the deepest need of every human being is to experience a taste of Christ delighting in us.    How does that experience happen?  Typically by way of a believer in whom Christ dwells doing the visible and audible delighting.    

Will you today check your attitude toward those around you?   Will you choose to find delightful things about each?   Will you find a way to thank God for them.   Will you express that to at least one other person?

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