People (particularly believers) can use a lot of lingo about "taking the easy path"... usually when speaking pseudo-sympathetically (or pseudo-judgmentally) of others' poor life choices and eventual consequences.
I started thinking tonight about how I am taking the "easy" path though. I've been dealing with a lot of my insecurities and failures this summer.
About that "easy" path, though... all these feelings, situations, failures... it has been so easy for me to focus on how much I've failed, how I'm such a terrible person, whatever it is... and honestly, it's easier to delve into those feelings and wallow in them than remind myself that I am God's precious daughter. He loves me. For that reason and that alone, I am not a failure. I'm not un-love-able. I do not need to lose heart. I don't need to beat myself up.
But that can be the harder path for me. I see others so easily the way Christ sees them... but I have a hard time seeing myself as Christ sees me. But that is what I have to remember. I can rest, not because of how amazing and perfect I am, but because somehow God chose me and loves me. I ache to be whole and I long to be in His presence, complete and no longer subject to Satan's temptings and tauntings.
He is good!!!
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