“You aren’t good enough”
“You aren’t smart enough”
“You didn’t make a difference in Cambodia”
“You have gained so much weight”
“The other girls are so much prettier than you”
“You aren’t a good enough Christian”
“Don’t say anything, you’ll sound dumb”
These are just a few of the many lies Satan has told me my whole life/while being on the race.
I listened to him. I believed him. I let him tell me these things so much that I didn’t even notice how negative I was towards myself.
I’ve been told over and over again that I’m the biggest hype man, but I throw myself in the dirt every chance I get, and since I didn’t even realize how negative I was towards myself, I just let all of the feedback go. I figured, since I was happy, I didn’t really need to change anything. I figured that I was fine.
Then, one day, Jesus so kindly hit me with a brick.
I realized that all of these terrible things I was thinking, was hurting Jesus. Think about it, me thinking that I’m not good enough is like telling Jesus that He didn’t do a good enough job. Ouch.
Jesus showed me that if I learned to be confident in myself, the places He would take me and the things we would do together would be bigger and better than I could ever imagine.
God wants to use me, He wants me to do the impossible, but I can’t if Satan has control over my thoughts. So here is a message for you Satan: you once had control over my thoughts, but now I would like to say: thank you, next.
