Is that how you look at yourself? As totally ineffective? Do you see others succeed but you never ‘get a break’? Do you feel powerless? Oh woe. What’s wrong with this picture? Simply -if you are a Christian then you cannot view yourself in that light.
Who are you instead? You are a King’s kid, more than a conqueror, a new creation… and so much more. It is critical that you stop looking at yourself as who you were and start looking at yourself in terms of who you have been made to be. And no, it isn’t easy because for so long you have told and conditioned yourself to believe the worse case scenario.
Don’t misunderstand, you have to do something. No magic words will grow you into who you’ve become. And the starting point is to have the correct perception of who you are. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – read Ephesians and in every place that it says in Him or in Christ or in whom say your name because that is who you’ve been made to be. Without this understanding you’ll continue to be a King’s kid but in the mud. You won’t rise to the station you have been made to occupy.
Remember, it isn’t easy to be successful. Success requires assuming responsibility. No longer can it be the nefarious ‘they/them’ who cause you to be powerless. You can’t blame fate or luck. You become one who… “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” And this is as much an internal reality as it is an external visibility. You can pray with Paul that, “…you be strengthened in the inner man.”
What’s next? You put off the old man and put on the new. (Colossians 3:10) And you begin a wonderful discovery of who you are becoming.
