We’ve seen our true identity, looked into the lives of people who have struggled and walked in (in)significance, discovered how strongholds are built, and deciphered attitudes of insignificance.
What do we do now?
1. Take time for self-examination. Do we recognize any of these attitudes in ourselves?
Remember that a person who feels insignificant will cling to anything they have to give them a sense of worth. Even to the detriment of themselves, their relationships, and their walk with God.
2. Recognize your need for a Savior. These attitudes of insignificance are all manifestations of a longing that can only be met in Jesus.
We can’t try to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and do better next time. We will always return to sinful, deadening behaviors when we walk in our own strength.
3. Repent. Turn from your sin and lean into Jesus. To repent is to walk in the complete opposite direction of where you were going.
It’s to identify your sin, own it, see it as wrong, and ask for Jesus’ forgiveness. (Tomorrow we’ll take a deeper look into what repentance is and does tomorrow.)
4. Forgive. There are areas in our lives where we’ll need to extend forgiveness to others. We need to forgive. This is important. We can’t just bypass this step.
We cannot walk in freedom if we are pulling dead weight from the past. Jesus calls us to forgive, because we’ve been forgiven.
It’s not easy. It takes work. Even if you don’t feel the desire or want to forgive, I strongly recommend you make a decision to forgive.
Forgive even if they don’t forgive you, even if they’ll never deserve it.
Forgive because your freedom…your free-ness, is hinged upon it.
This life of freedom is not based on how we feel. It’s based on the truth. Make a decision to forgive and do it.
There people in my past who I’ve made the decision to forgive and forgiven, but every so often a memory will be triggered or an emotion will rise up and I have to walk through those steps of forgiveness again. That’s okay.
Repentance, forgiveness, freedom…it’s a day-by-day walking out of faith.
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Day by day we’re getting closer to the end of this journey of significance.
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So, so true Jessica! When we feel insignificant we grab on to what we can see, taste, feel. What we need is Jesus, and not settle for anything else!