The Devil Is A Liar!
By all standards, I lived through a pretty intense childhood. Both of my parents were Bipolar. My mom also lived with severe and debilitating fibromyalgia. Having parents that both battled with depression, I learned about fear and anxiety at a young age. I grew up believing that my fears, anxiety, and depression owned me.
I grew up feeling cursed to live a life controlled and consumed by my thoughts. When my mother took her life when I was 17, I believed society when it told me that in time I would be just another lost life, a statistic like she ending up being. I fed into the lies. That’s what they were through lies. Lies that the devil desperately wanted me to believe. The truth was I was loved. I was chosen. Deuteronomy 7:6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord, your God, has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth”. He picked me, and he picked you.
I was loved. I was wanted. I didn’t always feel very wanted, but that is exactly what I was and still am. What does your past look like, dear readers? Was it a painful chapter that you’d give anything to forget? Was it a battlefield of grenades that exploded constantly? Was it full of so many emotional scars that you’ve lost count of how many scars you have? Do you feel like you can never let go of the wounds that run deep within you? Luke 1:37 “For nothing will be impossible with God”.
You might feel like letting go and letting God is something that you can never do. But you can. You really can. Your past doesn’t have to define you. It was a chapter in your life. It was a season that you were in. It’s not your whole life’s story. The Father is the only one that knows how your story will end. Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and hope”. Your story has meaning and value. Your story could be used to connect you to a nonbeliever. You could be the me-too person that they have been looking for. You could be the spark that the Father uses to ignite a powerful flame within their souls.
You might believe that you can never let go of your stinking thinking. You might think that the hamster wheel of anxiety is always going to keep spinning and spinning out of control and that it’s never going to stop. Don’t give up, and don’t give in! Your thoughts don’t own you. Only the Father does. You are not a prisoner to them. Psalm 34:18 “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit”.
The Father sees you. He doesn’t see the labels and diagnoses that the world has given you. He sees you. He sees your heart. Don’t get so caught up in what the world says about you that you forget that you, my friend are a child of God. Romans 8:14-19 “14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry,” Abba! Father!” 16The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and if children, then heirs-heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him, 18for I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God”.
You were not created to be a creature of fear. No, you were called for so much more than this. 1st Peter 5:7 “Casting all anxieties on him because he cares for you”. Give him your past. Give him yours now. Give him your future. He loves you, and he has had a hand in all of it. Everything that has happened to you was for a reason and a particular purpose.
You are not forgotten. There has never been a moment that the Father hasn’t seen or known about. Your tears never go unseen. Revelation 21:4 “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, death shall be no more, neither shall there be morning, nor crying, nor pain anymore for the former things have passed away”. He’s keeping a record of every tear that you’ve ever shed. In the end, he will free you from all of them. Your deep-seated pain won’t hurt you anymore. Romans 8:18 “The pain your feeling can’t compare to the joy that’s coming”.
Hold onto that promise. Hold onto that truth. You are wanted. You are chosen. You are who he says you are.
Author: Nadia M. Walker
Editor: JJ Michael Smith
God bless,
igotasavior
