The Lies….

I am reading a rather interesting book.  My friend Scooper talked about it a few days ago and I knew it was one I had to read.

The book?   ABBA’s CHILD

It’s amazing.

And just the book I need to be reading now. 

I love how the author (Brennan Manning) refers to Satan and his lies as THE IMPOSTOR.   Ah, such an appropriate word for the one who wants me to see myself as something other than The Beloved, Abba’s Child.

Some of the author’s quotes about the impostor are:

Impostors are preoccupied with acceptance and approval.  Because of their suffocating need to please others, they cannot say no with the same confidence with which they say yes.  And they overextend themselves in people, projects, and causes, motivated not by personal commitment but by the fear of not living up to others’ expectations.

The impostor is what he does.

The impostor is a liar.

The impostor is attentive to the size, shape, and color of the bandages that veil my nothingness.

The impostor demands to be noticed.

Hello

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Any of this sound familiar?
Any of this feel like the lies we buy into every day?

"Satan’s greatest psychological weapon is a gut level feeling of inferiority, inadequacy and low self-worth."
"It is one thing to feel loved by God when our life is together but what happens when we come face-to-face with the human condition?" 

When our life falls apart?

When bad things happen?

Manning goes on to say "the spiritual life begins with the acceptance of our wounded self.  The person who encounters God with naked trust"

The person who knows that God loves us sin and all.
Just the way we are.

"It takes a profound conversion to accept that God is relentlessly tender and compassionate toward us  just as we are – not in spite of our sins and faults, but with them."

May you see yourself as Abba’s Child today.
Laughed over, loved, sang over, and wooed.


Comments

  1. OldSchoolMarm says:

    Fantastic post Julie! I will look into this book.

    Have you read Captivating by Stasi Eldridge, great book also and confronts many of the issues that satan has lied to us about as women.

    Blessings, Julie

  2. Anonymous says:

    Wonderful post, Julie. Oh, I see myself in some of those words, most definitely.

    Many blessings,

    Stacy

Speak Your Mind

*

image