We are each telling ourselves a story about our life, a story about our worth.
Sadly, it is usually a negative story. Usually, we are using the world’s standard of measurement, or comparing ourselves to others, and then telling ourselves, we are not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, accomplished enough, and so on and so forth of not enough.
We may have been told bad stories about ourselves by people we trusted, and those bad stories play over and over in our heads.
We may be beating ourselves up for our failures, or our mistakes, or our poor choices along the way that cause us to feel unworthy of love.
We may have been taught a wrong story that we have to do something for God in order for Him to do something for us.
These stories we tell ourselves can cause us to try to do enough “good” things to earn our place as God’s child, thinking we can do enough to be worthy to be called His child. So, we try to perform our way into His Love, but we are human so of course we are going to make mistakes but instead of being self-compassionate we beat ourselves up for making a mistake and try to do better to make up for it, and it’s an endless tiring cycle.
Our mistakes and failures don’t keep us from God. Our goodness and performance doesn’t earn our way to God.
God tells us a different story about who we are.
God calls us His daughter or His son.
God says, we are loved just as we are.
God says, we are good because He created us.
God says, we are enough.
God says, He accepts us just as we are.
God says, “I love you, all you need to do is receive My Love.”
God loves each of us.
We must decide if we are going to trust our story about ourselves OR trust God’s story about us.
The story we tell ourselves deeply shapes how we live in the world. What we believe shapes how we show up.
Do we have the faith to believe and trust the Gospel announcement of our new identity?
Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an entirely new creation. All that is related to the old order has vanished.[a] Behold, everything is fresh and new.[b] 2 Corinthians 5: 17 TPT
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 This would include our old identity, our life of sin, the power of Satan, the religious works of trying to please God, our old relationship with the world, and our old mind-sets. We are not reformed or simply refurbished, we are made completely new by our union with Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 Or “Behold, a new order has come!”
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May we leave our old story behind and claim our new identity and live from there as our true self, loved, accepted, enough and free!
May we trust what God says about us!
May we be found seeking and discovering what He says about us and renewing our minds on His Truth!
It may feel too good to be true at first but we must keep practicing believing until it sinks deep into our soul and we live from this place of knowing!
The Lord alone is our radiant hope
and we trust in Him with all our hearts.
His wrap-around presence will strengthen us.
As we trust, we rejoice with an uncontained joy
flowing from Yahweh!
Let your love and steadfast kindness overshadow us
continually, for we trust and we wait upon you! Psalm 33:20-22 TPT
seeking and discovering a better WAY 
Beautiful words. And much needed truth!
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