We often wonder what people think of us….worry about it even…

We probably assume people think the worst of us because we focus on our own imperfections~assuming others do as well.

In Numbers 13 we are told of the Israelites who were sent to look at the land promised to the people by God. The land was everything they ever dreamed of having ~almost too good to be true.

God promised them they could and would have it but they were afraid to go take it from those living there already.

Numbers 13:33 speaks of how deep negative perceptions can run even in spite of an awesome God that had already shown His might through a multitude of miracles:

We were like grasshoppers in our own sight and so we were in their sight.

The assumption was that because the Israelites felt weak, small, incompetent, and incapable so thought the Canaanites .

The fact was that the Israelites had a growing reputation that they traveled with a powerful God leading the way and clearing the path….but they did not see themselves as powerful and so assumed others did not as well.

That assumption cost them the Promised Land until another 40 years went by…

On the other hand~

Doesn’t it feel good when we find out someone thinks positively about us???

Isn’t it empowering??

Our Father in heaven does 100% of the time…and He knows every little thing we have ever done or thought about doing.

Even while knowing our innermost thoughts, HE LOVES US.

Why?

BECAUSE HE CREATED US.

Psalm 139:17 tells us this~

How PRECIOUS are Your thoughts to me, O God! How VAST is the sum of them!

Rest in knowing that your Maker is thinking loving thoughts about you today and let that encourage you to step forward in faith to do what He asks of you.