Deception

It is so easy to be deceived into thinking about ourselves and our lives in negative ways. We aren’t perfect and we do make mistakes but we have to learn to repent of these, give them to God, asking for forgiveness and move on from them.

I have been finding this very difficult recently and am struggling to hold onto this idea of turning my back on my mistakes and feeling healed and renewed when I repent of them, truly believing that I have been washed clean of these sins. Jesus died for our sins and in going over and over what we have done wrong and not letting go we are not trusting in this.

We are all fallible and if we accuse ourselves constantly of being weak and unlovable then we will believe that and we can’t move on into a better and nearer relationship with our God. We have to be wary of that voice inside us that accuses us constantly. It is designed to make us depressed, feeling unloved and unworthy and stopping us from developing a joyful life with Christ.

St Paul in Romans 8: 31-39 tells us that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Don’t let introspection and negativity prevent you from bathing in this love and don’t listen to the voice of deception that will try to drive you away from your faith.

St Paul struggled, but he recognised that he was a new creation in Christ. His former role was to persecute christians and it is only his encounter with Christ that helped him to become a new person and turn his back on his former life: Galatians 2:20: “It Is No longer I Who Live, But Christ Who Lives in Me”.

God bless you and help you in your struggles,

Romans 8:31-39

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.