![]() We’ve allowed whatever is back there to define us, limit us, label us and trap us. Instead of glancing back to learn, grow, develop and repent, we’ve grown accustomed to constantly looking back, and that looking back has gotten us stuck and fixated on the past. Or maybe you’re looking back at what you consider to be your worst mistake, the one by which you’re still defining yourself. The middle-school or high-school mean girls who shamed you for your body. Can you think of anyone in your history who has this place of power over you? Who are you still looking back at, desperately longing for them to validate you?Ī mother who you couldn’t do enough to please.Ī teacher who said you’d never amount to anything.Īn ex-spouse who said no one could ever love you. So anytime and every time we seek to find our security in anyone or anything other than God, we will be plagued with insecurity. In all of life, the most insecure position to be in is the one in which we have something to prove or something to lose. If we do this long enough, it can lead us off the course of God’s purposes and on a personal quest to seek our value, worth and belonging from those who can’t give it to us. We are meant to live securely in His love, knowing we are His loved children.īut the reality is we often outsource the source of our security by making others our authority, by placing their opinions of us above God’s truth about us. And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba, Father!’ So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then God has made you an heir” ( Galatians 4:4-7). “When the time came to completion, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. Yet He used this intimate metaphor of adoption to show us that He actually chose us to be His children because He loves us - and that is where our identity lies. Well, maybe a little because I’m adopted.īut the truth is God could have used any metaphor to explain how we become a part of His family. I love that adoption is the heart of the gospel - and not because I’m adopted. ![]() And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba, Father!’ So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then God has made you an heir.” Galatians 4:4-7 (CSB)
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