What is God looking at?...

" And you shall make two cherubim of gold, make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat. And make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends. And the cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat. And you shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony which I shall give you. And there I will meet with you..." [Exodus 25: 18 - 22]

 'But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb; and she beheld two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.' [John 20: 11 - 12]

The Ark of the Covenant was a golden box. 

It had three things inside; a golden jar containing manna, Aaron's rod that budded and the tablets of stone on which God had written the Law [Hebrews 9: 4 - 5]. These three things represent man's rejection of God; the manna representing man's rejection of God's provision, Aaron's rod representing man's rejection of God's leadership and the stone tablets representing man's rejection of God's standard. Man's sin was in the box. 

Over the box was the mercy seat and looking down on the mercy seat, two cherubim. The Ark and the Mercy Seat sat in the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle of the Old Testament. Once a year the high priest would enter with the blood of the sacrifice and sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat, seven times.

Please take the time to read Hebrews 9.

It all points to Jesus. The number seven represents the perfection of the sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus has gone in, once for all, to the tabernacle not made with hands, into the Holy of Holies not without blood, He took His own shed blood and His offering was accepted in full for our right standing before a holy God.

So the question is this...when God looks at you, the believer in Jesus, what does He see? The answer lies in the cherubim. What did the cherubim see?

They see the blood! The cherubim symbolise the eyes of God. 

What does God see? He sees THE BLOOD!

Beloved, this is most important. 

God looks on you and He does not see your lack of worth He sees the infinite value of the blood of Jesus, His Son, shed for you. He sees you righteous in Christ. To believe anything less is de-valuing the blood of Jesus. And more than that the Bible says that 'blessings are on the head of the righteous' [Proverbs 10: 6].

My breakthrough is not based in me; it is based in my Saviour.

'I will sing my song of joy to you, the Most High...My enemies say that I have no Saviour, but I know that I have one in You!' [Psalms 13: 6 - Passion translation]

His blood covers my exclusion and God looks on me and sees the blood and says, "Righteous, Loved, Blessed, Whole, Perfect, Well, Healthy, Prosperous, Saved."