"Let all that I am praise the Lord." - Psalm 146.1
The above verse doesn't say, "Let me pray and fast and confess and heal and sacrifice and be of service, and THEN love God." No, it says, "Here I am, in all of my flaws and mistakes and brokenness and regret, and yet through it all, I will give it ALL to God. I am good enough to stand before God."
"Do not put confidence in powerful people: there is no help for you there" - verse 3
How easy it is for us, in all of our feelings of inferiority and failure and unworthiness, to judge our insides by other people's outsides? How easy it is for us to carry guilt and rejection around us like a noose, only to with grave error think that a great orator or someone who is "put together" or who is popular, or who has a designation can actually "fix" us, or even inspire us? Sorry, but that would be a resounding NO!
Healing comes from God, not from your spiritual adviser, not from your friend, not from your therapist, not from all of your self-will run in the guise of altruistic"good" works. Healing comes from trusting that God WILL see you through to the bitter end, and when we really go deep enough into our hearts to where we actually reach the decay and see that the only option left IS to be lifted from that alien rot, THAT is when our actions will in fact become divinely guided without the selfish expectation of "getting" something in return.
THAT is when we will find that bitter end is really just a bitter moment that was not even real to begin with, let alone given the disproportionate power which rendered us hopeless and in despair. Death by perverse perception. Let God show you the truth. He will, if you let Him.
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