The spiritual battle that rages day in and day out is not a war over terra firma. The battle being waged is over the intellectual property that lies between our ears. The battlefield upon which light and dark clash and the decision to surrender is decided is that stretch of grey matter between our ears known as the brain.
I can only speak for me, and unfortunately I’ve had to learn most things in life the hard way. My choices, and the results of those decisions, have mostly been based in the way I perceive things in my mind. Lately I have come to an even deeper, more difficult revelation... the way I see myself in light of how God sees me has direct implications on the choices I make. I call it the “Who Am I?” principle.
In my opinion, the most important thing we can ever come to know about ourselves is first of all who we are NOT! That takes courage and the willingness to abandon all those things that are not true… even if we have believed them and been convinced they were true our whole lives, they MUST be removed from our thinking. But how do we discover that truth? Where are those answers found? One place…
THE BIBLE!
If it was only about how much Scripture you could quote or memorize, and not to diminish the importance of that, it's value would mean nothing if the truth of who God says you are and understanding who you are not were not integrated into your heart and mind. I have had to go through the long and arduous task of discovering who I was not in order to fully accept who I am from God's perspective. From the Garden of Eden until now the strategies of darkness have never changed: replace what God says is true with a lie in order to mask the truth long enough so that the mind deceived into fully engaging and believing the lie.
But before we can fully integrate all that God says about us, which is the only thing that matters, we must first divest ourselves of the deception we have entered into and lived out! So this is how I do it. I continually remind myself, with confidence and tenacity, of these simple truth. First, I disagree with my accuser and second I tell my soul who I am based upon God's view of me and the work that was done in order to secure it for all of us:
I AM NOT my past. I AM NOT my failures or my mistakes. I AM NOT who I think I am. I AM NOT who others perceive me to be. I AM NOT my accomplishments, successes, or accumulated possessions. I AM NOT the sum of all my fears. I AM NOT a mistake or a freak. I AM NOT stupid or an idiot. I AM NOT unnecessary nor a waste of time. I AM NOT sick or evil. I AM NOT unworthy or unlovable. I AM NOT a disappointment. I AM NOT a burden or too much. I AM NOT dispensable or a piece of trash. I AM NOT a shame or shameful. I AM NOT anyone's slave. I AM NOT useless or worthless. I AM NOT ugly or gross. I AM NOT going to amount to nothing. I AM NOT meaningless. I AM NOT pathetic, or any other insulting, degrading, dark and demonic accusation fired at my mind… I AM NOT ANY OF THESE THINGS!
This is who I am... I AM WHO GOD SAYS I AM and I AM EXACTLY WHO HE SEES ME AS... I AM REDEEMED by HIS SACRIFICE, HIS BLOOD and HIS PASSIONATE LOVE for ME; I AM MORE THAN A CONQUEROR, VICTORIOUS WARRIOR and HEIR OF THE MOST HIGH GOD AND NOTHING, NOT ANYTHING OR ONE CAN SEPARATE ME FROM HIS LOVE!
Funny how just a little positive reinforcement of the truth and a "TAKE THAT" attitude can alter ones total state of consciousness!
© 2011 Steven Bliss
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