It’s Time to Fall In Love Again - With Yourself - Part 2
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In recovery from addiction, I learn that acting out isn’t the real problem. It is just a symptom of shame and believing that I’m not worthy of true, deep, endless, undying, eternal love.
The dam broke when I was at a ‘A Warrior Heart’ Bootcamp years ago, and the session opened by playing Graham Cook’s The Inheritance YouTube clip:
“The Lord says that there is nothing
That you can do that would make him love you more
There is also nothing you can do to make Him love you less
He loves you because he loves you
Because he loves you, because he loves you
Because he loves you, because he loves you
…
Because that is what He is like
It is His nature to love, and you will always be the beloved.”
God loves me 100%. Not because - or when - I am good. But because HE IS GOOD.
God so loved the world that He created it and sent His Son.
If He is Love and He is Good and He created me, then I have all the potential of being Good and being Loved (aka: Beloved).
The pivot in my life began when I started praying to see myself as God sees me. He loves me and sees my potential because He is Love. And when I step into His Love, then I can feel forgiven, put my past behind me, and move into my future.
Revelations 12:10
“For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.”
Those voices in my head that I’m not lovable are real, but they are a lie and a false judgment. If I let them affect me, the enemy of my soul doesn’t have to do anything else to defeat me because I am too busy defeating myself.
God loves you because He loves you. Because He is love.
I invite you to believe that you can believe it.
I close in prayer -
“God, open my eyes. Give me Your eyes to see me as You see me. Give me Your heart to love me as You love me. Give me Your grace to forgive myself as You have forgiven me. Give me Your amnesia to remember my sins no more as You have forgotten my sins. And help me to do the same and see others as You see me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
By Pete, Writing Team