What are the lies you believe? Do you realize you are even believing a lie? Things you’ve been told about others, your circumstances, what you think of yourself, perhaps it is about your family or your up bringing….
Sometimes we just need to take a step back and relook at things from a different view point. That may mean asking someone else what they think about your thinking or you can pray and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you.
When we wait on the Holy Spirit, when we stop and just listen it is amazing what you will hear. But the challenge comes when you have to choose if you will action or deal with what you learn. Are you willing to apologize to someone? Are you ready to ask for forgiveness if you’ve been mistaken? Can you admit that you are wrong?
I think those questions are so important to address first. I have had to ask myself if I am willing to humble myself, to see what I am looking at from another persons view point. Can I understand what they see and be okay with that even if I still don’t agree, to still love them regardless of a different perspective and not believe the lie that only I can be right. I mean, who am I to judge? Your life’s circumstances may cause you to have a very different view or opinion on the same thing I am looking at. It could be filtered by hurt or by a worldview different from mine.
Your belief system could be impacted by your upbringing and things your family have told you.
I have seen that a lot in children, even in the way you may prepare something to eat. Your mum may have cut sandwiches in triangles, mine in squares. But that doesn’t make either of our parents wrong, just different. But a child may tell you they can only eat triangles or it will taste different. Well that is not true but their belief system convinced them they are right and no other person will be able to change their mind.
We do the same thing as adults, we apply that same way of thinking to all that we do, say, think and believe. Are you willing to face yourself and your thinking? Perhaps start small, try something new, do something a different way just to experience it. If you don’t like it, that’s okay, but it doesn’t mean someone else who does is wrong or strange.
Ask a friend to pray with you about it to stand with you as you choose not to live life judging those who are not like you or don’t see everything the same way you do. But rather to see others the way God sees them, through His eyes of love. When we look at others that way everything will begin to change.
Praying you find freedom and truth
Ange x
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