Trying to be someone you are not is exhausting. Be 'sick
and tired' or being 'sick and tired'. Change.
- M. Thompson
I believe that God allows us to go through every life situation - good and bad - to get us to the point that we have no other choice but to submit to Him, His plans and Will for our lives. He created us and He wants us to come back to Him. Trusting Him for everything. Leaning on Him for everything. Loving Him MORE than anything. But the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden is still in us poisoning our soul.
We think we know everything. We think we have it all figured out. We think our ways, plans and thoughts exceed those of the One who knew us before the foundation of the earth (Ephesians 1:3–4 ESV, Jeremiah 1:5 NIV). We have allowed ourselves to be fooled and deceived into thinking 'this is just who I am' or ' this is just the way life is' or 'this is my cross to bear'. I've said it once and I'll say it again... to believe that Jesus was beaten, tortured, diseased, mocked, rejected and slain for us to have a mediocre, average and/or complacent life is ridiculous. Then, we add insult to injury by saying we believe in His ressurection only to settle for what the devil has planned for our lives as if it is better than what God has planned for us. The peace, joy and gifts in the Garden of Eden has always and will always be God's plan for our life. He gave us free will and the opportunity to make our own choices in hope that all He has for us would be worth being obedient and submissive to His Word and Will for our life. He gives us chance after chance after chance and continues to give us chances.
It's time for us to confront ourselves. Life is about choices. But human nature has a tendency to pick the 'easy way out' of things - blaming others, settling for less, lying (to ourselves and others), wallowing in self-pity and building 'walls'. It's time to start tearing those walls down and asking ourselves the hard questions that usually make us defensive:
- What's wrong with me?
- Why did I choose to go left instead of right?
- Why do I say/think/feel/do the things I do?
- What do I allow him/her to treat me this way?
- Why do I treat him/her that way?
- Why is my life the way it is?
Then, once you have answered yourself HONESTLY (in the privacy of your head) with no one to confront you but you, compare your answers to God's Words. Do they line up? What lies have you accepted as truth for your life? What poison have you allowed to consume your life?
After that, once you have figured all of that out (as time consuming and intimidating as it may be)... KILL IT. Kill EVERYTHING about you that doesn't line up with God's Word. Kill your 'bitchy' attitude. Kill your negative thoughts. Kill your stubborness. Kill your paranoia. Kill your poor choices. Kill your need to control everything. Kill your manipulative spirit. Kill your accpetance of mediocrity. Kill you low self-esteem. Kill your self-pity. Kill your acceptance of lack. Kill your addictions. Kill your bitterness. Kill your unforgiveness. Kill your voids. KILL IT ALL AND LET IT GO. Dead weight will always hinder your buoyancy - your ability to bounce back.
Confront yourself and BE FREE. Live on Purpose! Live for Purpose! Be Blessed on Purpose!
God is Love. Love is Life. Life is in The Word.
Picture: 'Freedom' by Kvikken
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