Reason tells me that I'm struggling with something. My heart tells me that I struggle with the following:
- What if people don't get it?
- What if people don't like it?
- What if people don't even read it?
- What if people judge me?
- Make fun of me?
- Dislike me?
- What if I come across as_______?
As a woman who has had a hard life that many don't know about I struggle with those self depreciating thoughts all of the time, not just while writing a blog. Which by the way I LOVE to write but never think what I have to say is good enough. My struggle I think is something so many women feel but don't know how, like me, to deal with. I know this is not what our Creator desires for us. He didn't design us with this fear in mind for children of His kingdom.
Over the past couple of weeks I have been teaching our youth at church about being created in His image and what that means when it comes to areas of our life. I have learned that God created me in the image of Him and He is confident and not afraid. He doesn't seek approval of others. He knows people judge and made fun of Him as the Son Jesus but yet there He was doing His thing. If I am created in His image I too should have that humble confidence that was portrayed in our Lord Jesus when He walked on Earth so many years before.
I'm certain about this, I will struggle with thoughts of not being good enough in some areas but I am confident in one....Jesus. I am confident that through looking at His life I can overcome so much. I can continue to grow and hopefully be used in a way that magnifies Him. Over time as I believe more and more in the truth of being created in His image those thoughts listed above will leave and be replaced with thoughts of Him and what He thinks of me.
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