i was talking with Him today about love and worth and i asked Him why so often i feel like i need to prove myself to people in almost everything i do.
the first thing He told me is that it's a lie of the enemy to make us believe we must prove ourselves worthy and worthy to be loved, even by God.
it overwhelmed me SO much because i realized that all the lies of the enemy had been exploited in my life by the way i allowed myself to be treated by broken people who were looking to prove to THEMSELVES their own worth, which had been attacked just as i had been. i didn't realize that i have nothing to prove to anyone because everything i was believing was being sifted thru a corrupted filter given to me by this world. it was all so subtle that i didn't even recognize it happening!
He also revealed to me that even as women we get attacked by this SO much in such a MESSED UP way! i think it's because the enemy tells us somewhere in there that because we were created after adam we aren't loved as much and so we must constantly assert ourselves to "become" worthy and lovable.
but we, all of us...men AND women alike, are worthy of GOD and His love. we are worthy because He has called us sons and daughters and made us worthy.
...the next thing He told me left me COMPLETELY overwhelmed and began a total shift and overhaul of my worldview, which i am now realizing has been fully corrupted from the very core and i have been blind to it.
He said that we have NOTHING to prove and we don't even realize it.
He said that we had nothing to prove to Jesus to make Him love us so much that He would become a human and allow Himself to be brutally murdered by His very creation...
Jesus did it before we were created, before we had a chance to know Him then chose to deny Him, be ashamed of Him, allow ourselves to be overcome by sin and in turn cry out for healing from the very Man we denied.
we had and HAVE nothing to prove because He decided to do this not even just before we were created, but before He laid the very foundations of this world. simply because of His unimaginable and incomparably great LOVE for us (eph. 1:3-5).
it overwhelmed me SO much because i realized that all the lies of the enemy had been exploited in my life by the way i allowed myself to be treated by broken people who were looking to prove to THEMSELVES their own worth, which had been attacked just as i had been. i didn't realize that i have nothing to prove to anyone because everything i was believing was being sifted thru a corrupted filter given to me by this world. it was all so subtle that i didn't even recognize it happening!
He also revealed to me that even as women we get attacked by this SO much in such a MESSED UP way! i think it's because the enemy tells us somewhere in there that because we were created after adam we aren't loved as much and so we must constantly assert ourselves to "become" worthy and lovable.
but we, all of us...men AND women alike, are worthy of GOD and His love. we are worthy because He has called us sons and daughters and made us worthy.
and when Jesus died, all of creation felt the Father's broken heart...over Jesus...and over US...because we are Jesus' inheritance. HE CHOSE US. we have NOTHING to prove to each other, to ourselves..not even to GOD.
i think once we understand this, we will stop allowing ourselves to be deceived by the subtle lies the enemy tells us thru the broken circumstances of this world.
"Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him." 1 John 3:1
oh my gosh, i love 1 john 3:1; it's amazing!!!
ReplyDeleteJamie! btw, I was wondering how you get the little donate link on your page??