Sounds dark for a blog entry title, huh? I’m not just talking about someone else lying to you though. I am also talking about you lying to yourself. The Devil can use your own voice to make it sound like you talking to yourself too, and then sometimes you end up believing him and saying mean stuff to yourself.
Stuff like “you’ll never matter” or “you’ll never be enough” are examples of the lies I am talking about. But that is exactly the stuff we need to filter out (is this really me talking?) and ignore. I was referred to this video recently about this topic, and I have attached it below:
I think a lot of people can backslide, and you never know how easy it can happen until you realize how far you have slid… and sometimes it is too late to fix things. Which kind of reminds me of the Christmas Carol, when Jacob Marley says, “I made this chain, link by link.”
So how many lies do you want the Devil to tell you? How many lies to do you want to tell yourself because you believed him?
I think I have been feeling like not enough lately, for more than one reason. Last month, it was the busiest month of the year and I felt like I wasn’t getting enough done (at work or at home). Like I should have finished this task at work, or I should have spent more time playing/loving my dogs. So I know that I need to calm down (as Taylor Swift puts it- lol) and learn to be more content, in every situation. Like the apostle Paul, who was hunted down more that once and lifted down outside a city’s walls in a basket, yet he was still content wherever he was.
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.”
Jeremiah 9:3 ESV