2071 When God Sees You

0:00Congratulations! Your gift of a new day is here! Ready to live it big? You're listening to the Big Life Devotional Podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today. Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life happy. Thursday, my friends. Look at that March 5th of 2026. What a gift it is to get to be alive today, and I am just so incredibly thrilled that you pressed play, that you invited me into your life today. I'm actually recording live right now from Waikiki Beach in Oahu, and it is absolutely stunning. I wish you were here with me, but I'm giving you the next best thing. Bring in you here with me for a devotional today. Alright, the title of today's episode of the Big Life Devotional Podcast is when God sees you.

1:05When God sees you, he sees something you don't see. He doesn't see your past. You see your past. He doesn't see that. He doesn't see your future. You wish you could see that, but that's not what God sees. He sees one thing. God sees the blood of his son, Jesus. That is, if you have accepted his sacrificial redemptive blood over your life, that is the single most important question of your lifetime. Have you accepted what Jesus has done for you? Is your life covered in his blood, redeeming you and making you holy and righteous? It's a simple, surrendered decision of faith that changes everything about your future for eternity. The decision to accept what Jesus has done personally for you forever changes the way God sees you.

2:11With the blood you are forever good enough, forever holy, forever redeemed, forever destined for paradise, forever set apart. But I wonder if you really live your ordinary days knowing your set apart by God. Do you know what you've been saved from? You've been promised a special protection from the destruction coming because, oh girl, it's coming. But it will pass right over you. Why? Because of the blood. The first Passover happens at this point in our study of the book of Exodus. Remember now Moses is sent by God to free the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. However, the Egyptian king, Pharaoh, leads with a stubborn hardened heart, refuses to release God's people.

3:13So there are nine plagues sent by the hand of God onto the Egyptians. And each plague is worse than the one before as a display of God's power over every false God, Pharaoh and his people worshiped. Each plague a warning and an opportunity to come to faith. With each plague, Pharaoh is miserable and he seeks relief from God. Remember, that's what we studied yesterday. But what happens? The moment relief comes, Pharaoh just returns to his hardened heart and resists any God-prompted change. And I want to pause right there for a minute. God-prompted change. Hmm. How bad do you resist that? Let me tell you something. Disaster comes when we have a death grip on the things we think we can't live without.

4:16Disaster comes when we put anything, absolutely anything before the will of God. Let that sit for a moment. If God has been stirring your heart with a change that terrifies you, resist the urge to ignore it, resist the impulsive rush and the cover-up, and allow your softened heart to be bare before God. You really can trust him to get this right. If he takes something away from you, it's because he has something better for you. But you will have to release what he's asked you for before you see what better thing he has aligned next. Check your hands right now. Are your hands feeling clingy and clenched in fear? Dare to open them and say, God, you can have it.

5:16You can have it. So any God-prompted change that you have been fearful of right now, I just encourage you. Open up your hands and say, God, you can have it. Now, maybe God really wants it. Maybe he really does want it from you. Or maybe he really wants to know that he can have it. And then, once he knows that you would give it to him, he allows you to keep it. You see, God really wanted his people free from slavery in Egypt. He knew Pharaoh's hardened heart would not allow his hands to open and release them even with all nine plagues. So finally comes a sweep of God's power that would break Pharaoh's hardened heart wide open. Exodus chapter 11 is titled Death for Egypt's firstborn. Kind of a chapter we like to just skim over because it's dark, but it's true.

6:21And we need to know about it because there's actually good news for us in this. God knew this is what it would take. Verse 1, the Lord said to Moses, I will strike Pharaoh in the land of Egypt with one more blow. And after that, Pharaoh will let you leave this country, now verses 4 through 8. This is what the Lord says. At midnight tonight, I will pass through the heart of Egypt. All the firstborn sons will die in every family in Egypt from the oldest son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the oldest son of his lowliest servant girl who grinds the flower. Even the firstborn of all livestock will die. And then a loud whale will rise through the land of Egypt, a whale like no one has ever heard before or will ever hear again. But among the Israelites, it will be so peaceful that not even a dog will bark.

7:24And then you will know that the Lord makes the distinctions between the Egyptians and the Israelites. All the officials of Egypt will run to me, the Lord says, and fall to the ground before me, saying, and please leave, they will beg, hurry, and take all your followers with you. Only then will I go. So the final plague was coming at midnight, the plague of death. But the Israelites, God's people, were set apart. There would be nothing but peace among them in the middle of sheer terror and destruction. The plague of death would pass right over their homes. They would survive, untouched, unbothered, unshaken, and finally be set free. Moses was given special instructions by God to mark his people as set apart and passed over in this plague of death.

8:26What was the mark? Do you know? The mark was blood. Exodus 12, verses 21 through 23, Moses tells his people, instructed by God. Go and pick out a lamb or a young goat for each of your families and slaughter the Passover animal, drain the blood into a basin, and then take a bundle of high silk branches and dip it into the blood. And then you brush that across the tops and the sides of the door frames of your house. And no one may go out through the door until morning for the Lord will pass through the land to strike down the Egyptians. But when he sees the blood, if you're following along in your Bible right there in Exodus 12, highlight underlying circle and draw some arrows. But when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the door frame,

9:26the Lord will pass over your home. He will not permit his death angel to enter your house and strike you down. The pure blood of the sacrificed lamb would set God's people apart. The coming punishment that was set to arrive at midnight would pass right over them as they were kept in perfect peace. You see where we're going with this? My friends, this is exactly what Jesus did for us, permanently, forever. John the Baptist introduces Jesus in John chapter 1 verse 29 as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Punishment on judgment are coming on this world. Last summer we did a study of the book of Revelation, and I mean, it's real. Revelation tells us about the destruction, the horror, the terror, much like the plague of death sent to Egypt.

10:34But for those marked by the blood of the Lamb of God, we are passed right over and perfectly protected with peace. My friends, Jesus radically sets us apart. He marks us as his own, but with his blood, not because we're worthy, but because we're his chosen ones. He chose us first. Now we get to choose him back, but it is our choice. If you've accepted what Jesus has done for you, then God sees one thing when he sees you. He sees the blood of his son. And because of that blood, you are seen as holy, righteous, redeemed, worthy, and destined for an eternity by his side in a perpetual, everlasting paradise.

11:41You know, RIP, I know that it's supposed to mean rest in peace, but you know what it means to me? Retired in paradise. It's where I'm going. Oh, Lord, may you see the blood of Jesus all over me. Like less of me, more of Jesus. That's what that means. May every bit of my character, all of my choices, all of my desires, all my tendencies, and everything I ever do be fully covered in the blood of Jesus. So that when God looks at me and sees how I live, what I do, what I say, where I go, how I lead, how I follow. May he see only one thing, the blood. The blood that sets me apart, the blood that makes me forever good enough. That's Jesus. That's what Jesus does.

12:43Is that what God sees when he sees you? If you have accepted the offering of Jesus, then that's absolutely what he sees. And oh, how he loves the soul covered in the blood of Jesus. Oh, how he has good plans for that soul. And oh, how he desires an eternity with you by his side in paradise. And maybe, just maybe, we can start seeing ourselves a little more like this too. Instead of seeing our faults and everything we hate about our reflection, maybe we can start seeing a girl that was so totally and completely loved by her creator that he gave his only son to save her and cover her forever. That's a girl who is really forever good enough.

13:48A girl set apart a girl marked by the blood. And that girl is you. If that girl is not you because you have not fully accepted what Jesus has done for you, may today be your day. Like goodness. It's your destiny. You're being invited into this. All you have to do is accept. If you've already accepted, then may you see yourself the way God sees you covered by the blood forever good enough made holy and righteous only by Jesus. And you know, may we see each other that way too. God's girls. May we see each other like this. Less of us some more of Jesus, right? I write my friends. I would love to pray with you today. Would you join me right now just a quick prayer together. Hey, God. Good morning.

14:48Thank you so much for giftiness with a brand new day of life. We received this as a gift from you. And we just want to say Jesus, thank you. Thank you for your blood that covers us. Thank you for marking us as forever good enough for setting us apart for calling us to an eternity by your side and paradise. We don't deserve it, but yet you have marked us as worthy of your love. So Jesus, thank you for your blood. May there be less of us and more of you. May we see ourselves that way. May we see one another that way. Lord, I pray right now if there's anyone listening to this that can hear the sound of my voice right now that has not accepted fully what Jesus has done for them. May today be their day, holy spirit, move and do your work. Thank you for saving us. Thank you for marking us. Thank you for setting us apart.

15:48So that the coming doom and gloom passes right over us. We're so grateful. We pray these things in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus. Amen. My friends, thank you so much for joining me today. Once again, come into your life from Waikiki Beach. I've loved our time together. Let's do it again tomorrow. I love you wildly. Goodbye, everybody. You are created for a big life. We'll help you do it. Join us each weekday for a new big life devotional podcast. If you're ready to dive into the big life way of living, visit our website at biglifehq.com.