This post is part of a 31-day series.
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
What do you hear when you listen to yourself?
Is worry telling you that God is mean to you? That He is indifferent to you? That He is unwilling or unable to help you?
If your loved ones told you they care deeply for you and will certainly help you, would you disbelieve them? Does worry tell you that God is even less trustworthy than your friends?
What is your worry telling you about what you believe?
Stop listening to yourself and start talking to yourself. Recite the truth to yourself.
God's love.
God's love is unfailing, forever faithful, stronger than many waters. It is sovereign, irrevocable. His love is tender, fierce, jealous, and protective. It is all-encompassing, forgiving, and providing. It does not change with the wind of circumstance.
Salvation.
Romans 8:29-30: "Those whom He foreknew, He also predestined...and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified." God has saved me because of His eternal love set upon me. It was His idea, His work, and He will bring His salvation to completion.
Status of my sin.
My sin has been completely washed away by the efficacy of Christ's blood. He has removed it as into the deepest ocean, as far as east from west. When God looks at me, He sees only Christ's perfect record, whose righteousness has been imputed to me. The ultimate power of sin in my life has been broken.
Positional truths.
My position before God, because of Christ, is: Forgiven. Clean. Child of the King. Victor. Child of light. Beloved. Safe and secure.
Let us fight against the lies of our worry and depression with life-giving truths. Let us repeat them until truth drowns out the clamor of lies.
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