Today's daily lesson comes from 1 Samuel chapter 15 verses 16 thru 18a:
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”
17 And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. 18 And the Lord sent you on a mission . . ."
There is nothing that has more power over us than the way we see ourselves in our own eyes.
If in our heart of hearts we believe that we are small, stupid, inarticulate, impotent, or in any other way inadequate for the task given us then it shall surely show. What we believe about ourselves is always -- ALWAYS -- a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the way that fear and its twin shame end up undermining so many and so much of us.
God would have us to know that what has been given unto us is sufficient for whatever it is that He has called us to. We must believe one thing about ourselves -- that we are enough.
Believing that is everything; but neither God nor anyone else can believe it for us. We gotta believe it ourselves.
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