PART ONE
See Yourself
Clearly.
The way you see yourself is shaped by more than what has happened to you. Stories, assumptions, expectations, wounds, and repeated experiences can become lenses through which you interpret your life.
LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE
Learn to recognize what is shaping what you see.
A reaction can feel immediate and completely true while still being shaped by an old conclusion. You may be responding to what is happening now, or to what this moment resembles, what you fear it means, or what you have learned to expect.
Seeing yourself clearly is not an exercise in self-criticism. It is the practice of bringing these formed patterns into the light, naming them honestly, and testing them against what is true.
What story am I telling myself? What am I assuming? Does this agree with who I am in Christ?
FORMATION IS NOT IDENTITY
A pattern can explain you without defining you.
Your habits, defenses, beliefs, and ways of seeing were formed over time. They matter because they shape how you live—but they are not the deepest truth about who you are.
FOUNDATIONAL REALITY
In Christ, you are already a new creation. The work of formation is not becoming someone acceptable to God. It is learning to live from the new life you have already received.
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17
PART TWO
Seeing yourself clearly also requires seeing God clearly.
The way you imagine God’s posture toward you shapes what you believe is possible. Next, examine that picture through the clearest revelation of God’s character: Jesus.
Continue to See God Clearly