Self Esteem, Inadequacy and Shame – How has the skyrocketing divorce rate and other life choices affected your life here on earth? – Part 5
This week’s topic could not have come at a better time. I have been mauling over this topic for the last few weeks and had put it aside, but now it has come clear to me what needs to be said. This week’s topic is about self-esteem, it’s about feeling inadequate and it is about feeling shameful. The world is filled with options for us, right from the beginning when we choose as babies what food we want in our mouths and what we do not. But we have continued to make choices throughout our lives, good and bad, not always thinking about the consequences. This week we will talk about our self-esteem and feelings of inadequacy using the Bible as the go to reference book of choice…cont’d.
Isaiah 54:4-8, is a perfect explanation of how God feels about us in our feelings of shame, guilt and inadequacy (Isaiah 54:4-8). As I had said, we serve a living God; He is slow to wrath, but quick to heal (Psalm 145:8). Do not let the deceiver convince you otherwise. The God we serve is the everlasting God, the God that knows everything about you. Everything you have gone through and anything you may go through. Put your trust in Him, the living God and He will deliver you from your problems (Psalm 144:2)! As the Bible says, God is our strength and our deliverer, put your trust in Him (Isaiah 41:10, Psalm 18:2). Put on the full armour of God and stand against your adversary in confidence that you have a greater Protector fighting for you (Ephesians 6:10-18). To God be the Glory!
Darrell
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