We
search our whole life for a person or accomplishment to complete us, to make us
whole. We drive our self to distraction, like slaves who never measure up.
We
want so desperately to find love, acceptance and abundant provision. Yet, our
soul is fragmented all along the highway of life. Our identity is falsified
with Satan's lies.
Lost
loves, rejection, physical abuse, belittling, deprivation, abandonment, high
expectations and a myriad of other traumas and negative experiences will chip
off pieces of our soul and leave it behind in our past.
The
false labels, which we use to identify our self, are destructive and demeaning.
They restrict us with feelings of futility and worthlessness. We feel hopeless
and helpless.
We
cripple our future with the pain of our past. We may do immoral actions, but
that does not make us a bad person. It only identifies us as a sinner in need
of Jesus as our Savior.
Good
people do not go to heaven, and bad people do not go to hell. Believers in
Christ go to heaven and unbelievers condemn themselves to eternity in hell
(John 3:16-18).
As
we find our true identity in Christ alone, He takes us back to these losses from our past and
recovers our true self from the rubble we left behind. His love completes us
and His provision satisfies us.
Prayer:
Father
God, thank You for renewing our mind and transforming it into the mind of
Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). Jesus freed us from the bondage, which Satan
attempts to bind us with, and He gives us the right to become Your children (John
1:12, 8:36).
Help
us to forgive our self for the sins of our past, just as You forgive us (Matthew
6:14). Remind us to follow the direction of Your Spirit through each moment of
our day and to bring You the glory for our every thought, word and deed (Psalm
143:8).
Thought
for the Day:
God
is the only one who can restore our soul and make us co-heirs with Christ to
His Kingdom.
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Psalm 23:3; 1 John 3:2; Romans 8:17
