When life throws us challenges, rejections, demotions, disrespect, and other hurtful stuff, it hurts us deeply. It is because it feels as if they are taking away all that we have accomplished. Our sense of value is completely dismissed.
It took me some time to process this. One, why do I give so much credit to those who hurt me to begin with? Two, how many times did I stand back up after I fell? And three, how could I lose my God-given strength and value that easily? Honestly speaking, it was a challenge to my claim that “I have everything I need (Ps 23:1).”
It is not falsely convincing ourselves to get out of a funk; rather, it is going back to the truth and promise that we will not be shaken by anything or anyone.
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