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Do you ever give in to the fallacies of the lies that say you aren’t good enough?
I do.
I wish I didn’t, and I think I’m making progress, and then I’ve fallen down a slippery slope.
For many years I listened to the bold-face lie that I wasn’t good enough because I was sub-average height.
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I typically attend a Lutheran church in a fairly well off area. We are a comfortable middle class family with two working cars. I don’t have to shop at a thrift store unless I want to. I don’t worry about how to pay the bills each month or what my kids are going to eat. Most of my friends are just like me.
I realize how blessed I am, but sometimes it can be hard to see God at work when I’m comfortable, safe and sound inside my bubble.
Last weekend I attended church with a friend in a town about four hours away. On Sunday morning we drove through some areas of town that compelled me to lock the car doors.
The service was not my usual liturgical style and worship was far from the typical hymns we generally sing. The ministry caters to recent parolees from prison. Many of the members live in church-owned trailers. Some are unemployed. Several have battled addiction to a variety of things nearly beyond my comprehension.
I was way outside my bubble.
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Are you looking for the Peace of God?A few years back… Okay. More than a few years back, there was a song that included the line “Don’t worry. Be ____.” Do you remember? It seemed to indicate that a joyful attitude was the opposite of worry.
That’s not what God says.
Phil. 4:6-7 says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made know to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
God clearly says, “Don’t worry. Be PRAYERFUL. Then, you’ll get peace.”
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“Now write another decree in the king’s name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king’s signet ring – for no document written in the king’s name and sealed with his ring can be revoked.” Esther 8:8 NIV
Years ago God convicted my spirit about the words that came out of my mouth. I was listening to a cassette tape of my brother-in-law preaching a sermon. (Yes, a cassette tape.) I don’t remember the exact phrase he used, but it went something like this…
“Our words are meant to edify and build up others. If your words are not building others up, it’s better not to say them at all.”
I’d heard the old saying my entire life…If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. But until this moment, I hadn’t realized how damaging negative speech could be. God gripped my heart, and my tongue, that day. I realized then how much I needed to work on speaking positive words.
I didn’t understand, however, how difficult the battle would be.
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