Embrace Your Place

Embrace your Place

many of us have spent our lives trying to be people we are not and at times our addictive compulsive behaviors may only be a desperate attempt to escape from ourselves. Maybe we have difficulty accepting our personality, our appearances or even our talents. Perhaps you're like me where I've spent my energy and time trying to be what other people wanted me to be because I feel that who I was was not enough.

We may do all we can to separate from our inner being because we are deeply ashamed and feel guilty of the things we have done which we think then those things are who we are. This is quite the opposite though! Our identiy is not those things we have done, said, think or what has been done or said to us. I identity was created while we were being formed in our Mothers womb. So ask yourself this question then, have you allowed self hatred to be part of your identity?

If so, well it's a defect of character that needs to be removed. Self hatred breeds the sin of covetousness which is longing to be someone else or having something else that someone has instead of embracing the place of who God created us to be from the very beginning.

One important step in recovery process is to allow God to remove our character defects such as self hatred toward ourselves and helping us to value ourselves in who we are and believing that we are enough just because God created us. We have been miraculously created and we are treasured by God. This has been true since the time we were in our mother's womb and long before we could do anything to think any differently.

As I have walked along the journey of recovery through the process of untangling the hurts the unhealthy habits and the hang ups such as self hatred I have now learned to begin to see how God uniquely and divinely, specifically created me. We are embraced and accepted by God himself.

David writes in psalms 139 about our relationship with God he knows us better than we know our own selves. He knows us from the place inside not from the place outside and that my friend is what matters.

So embrace the place of who you are and if you don't know who that is my friend I would encourage you just start sitting with God asking him to reveal to you the wonderful things that he has created inside of you so that you can start believing in who you are whose you are and not what the world has tried to label you from the hurts, habits and hang-ups in your life.