What makes you feel complete? What defines who you are? Is it the cloths you wear, the car you drive, the house you live in, the job you have, the person you are with?
From the very beginning of creation in Genesis 3, Satan's never ending attempt to deceive us started with Adam and Eve. It hasn't stopped since then. Genesis 1:27, tells me I was created in His image. The image that I have of Jesus is everything I want to be. Nothing can define me, only He can.
Knowing who I am in Christ helps me to fight those voices in my head, or anything that anyone else says about me. Everything He says about me defines me. Just because I'm a Christian, doesn't mean I don't have my weak moments. But the deeper my love relationship continues, those voices become very faint.
I love what James 4: 7-8 says because it's so true. Submit yourselves to God first and watch what happens. The enemy will flee. There's no room for him to squeeze his lies in when you know God's word about you. Whether you believe that or not, it will begin to make all the difference .
It's up to making a personal choice with this love relationship with Jesus. Put the new nature of God in our hearts, spend time with Him and watch and feel it expand in your soul. That's what working out your own salvation means, Philippians 2: 12. We live in a sin soaked world, and the enemy never quits. 1 John 4:4, But greater is He who is in me!
Colossians 3: 10, "and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created Him"... There are several other verses to drown out anything less than what God says you are..... One of my favorites is Psalm 139... 1 Corinthians 3:16, 2 Corinthians 4: 16, John 3: 6, John 3:3.... These are just a few I like to keep as my weapons against the lies.
I believe what my Creator says about me, and He is still finishing His work in me. If I was worth dying for as a sinner, I know I am loved!!!
Much love, and pray for you to be encouraged
Kim D
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