Potential

DEAR GOD,
Reading the book of Judges I am stuck at how your angel greeted Gideon by calling him "mighty hero." Was he talking to the right person? Gideon was hiding from his enemies, the Midianites, and he saw himself as the least important in his family. But when you looked at Gideon, you saw the man who rescued Israel. Lord, do you look at me that way? Am I a "mighty hero" in your eyes even though I think of myself as weak? Oh, please bring out the best in me! Thank you that you see more in me than I see in myself. I look at my limitations, but you, O God, look at my potential. You perceive in me what you created me to be. Thank you for seeing what I can become instead of scolding me for who I am. It makes me want to rise to your expectations and become a person who models a giant faith. May I aspire to reflect all you see in me.

*** The angel of the LORD came....Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites. The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, " Mighty hero, the LORD is with you!" JUDGES 6:11-12***