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What does God see?

Last night at Bible study a prayer was brought up to ask to see yourself from God's perspective. This morning while I was in the shower (a great place to think by the way) I wondered what God sees when He looks at me. Does He see the physical me, my soul, or both? I need to get going, but I wanted to put this question out in the void. I may elaborate on this entry later.
I wrote a poem the other day that I thought I'd share here. I'm adding it to my poetry book I'm writing as well. Here it is: God's Call God's call is for one and all, especially those who fall. God's call gives you a choice to obey, or to turn away. Some choices are hard, but end with a great reward. A reward that never fades likes a pair of shades. God's call is for good. Will you do what you should? The reward will be so great that I can hardly wait to start enjoying what I've missed since a serpent learned to hiss sweet nothings in the ear of one that God held dear. Since the fall, the world has been hell for all. Those who follow God have had a difficult path to trod. How much longer must mankind wait until we can see the pearly gate that awaits us at the entrance to a place that is the home of God's saving grace? God does not want us to fall, so we must heed the instructions when we hear God's call. Now I'm going to answer Unit 8's

"Mine, mine, mine!"

The following two paragraphs are from my work in Experiencing God : Weekly Review Question: 7. What has God done through circumstances that has given you a sense of His timing or direction concerning any aspect of His will? Seeing Jeremiah and Angela after 18 years. My dad is able to see them one more time on Earth before dying, and he wouldn't have had the chance if he went in his own timing like he wanted to. My dad hasn't died yet, but he wanted to a couple years ago. "There is not one inch in the entire area of our human life about which Christ, who is Sovereign of all, does not cry out, 'Mine!'" The previous quote was stated by Abraham Kuyper. I found the quote in the book, Heaven , when I was reading the section on resurrection. I wanted to share this particular quote because it made me think of the seagulls in Finding Nemo . Whenever a possible morsel swam by, the gulls would shout, "Mine, mine, mine!" over and over again until t
I've recently started reading a book called "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn. I'm not very far into it, but it has been rather insightful. I've come to the point of keeping a notebook close by to write down any quotes that make me think, and changes the way I see things about my spiritual walk. It's a good thing for me, though. Anyway, following is a quote from the book, and the reason why I chose to share it here. The quote is taken from page 54 of the book. "It isn't merely an accommadation to our earthly familial structure, for instance, that God calls himself a father and us children. On the contrary, he created father-child relationships to display his relationship with us, just as he created human marriage to reveal the love relationship between Christ and his bride (Ephesians 5:32)." My family got an answer to a prayer last night! First, a bit of history: When my sister, Amee, was younger she had two children, a boy and a girl. She had bee