Be your best self

I love being a home-schooling; work from home mom, the times with the children is invaluable.  We have such fun teaching little valuable lessons on the go.  This morning I had the opportunity to engage in an unplanned lesson.  It began when one of the children decided to copy the other, there were some ‘I want to be alone’ and the other protesting their right to join in.  I felt impressed that this could be a wonderful teaching moment and used the occasion to have a discussion on identity, self-belief, and contentment.  I explained that the goal should not be to copy the next person but to allow God to develop them into the best version of themselves, the one He wants them to be.  To ensure my message was transmitting correctly I checked regularly for understanding and feedback.  Towards the end of the session, my daughter said ‘I am happy my mom is a counsellor because we can talk about things that are not ok’.   I smiled that at 9 she understood the import of what I wanted to transmit.

Perhaps you did not have the value of this kind of interaction when you were younger; Perhaps you are plagued with not too flattering ideas of self, perhaps because of circumstances in your past your pain have influenced you to define yourself in ways that do that mirror what you read in the bible.   For example, David’s statement about himself in PS 139 ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’

 Perhaps you would like to change but do not know how or where to begin.

Are you able to identify when you need something and ask for it?  Are you able to recognise the imbalance between what God says you can be and what you really believe about yourself?  Are you able to own how you really see yourself?  Can you say the words in your mind?  Chances are those words if negative did not originate with you and they are certainly not God’s words to you, they do not reflect his heart of love towards you.

He wants you to be the best version of you, the moulding and chiselling that needs to take place should come only from His revelation to you and not flung at you through hate filled, spiteful and angry words.

Sit with Him with Ps 139 and let Him teach you who you really are, allow His words to sink deep into your consciousness and free you from the shackles of other people’s projections of themselves.  The ones you are beginning to own.