*If you plan on watching Inception and haven't yet, then do so before reading this blog*
At the closing scene of the movie, Inception, my mind was racing. I loved it and immediately God started showing me the "real" version of this movie. When we are young innocent children, an idea or thought is planted in our little minds. These thoughts, normally brought on by wounds, begin to take root as an absolute truth, i.e. "You are not good enough. You are not worthy of love. You are too much to handle. You are only good for ______. etc..." and we live them out as if they are who we are. God will try to give us a "kick" (like that shown in the movie) to pull us out of our unrealistic world but all too often we are too afraid to follow His truth. What we normally end up doing is sabotaging any relationship we have just so we can prove that "implanted thought" right. My theory is that the reason why we can't believe or why we choose to not believe anything other than these "thoughts" as truth is because the one who wounded us, causing these "thoughts" to appear, was a person who was suppose to love and protect us and if they didn't believe we were worth anything, why should we believe we are. Here's the thing though, it isn't the one who wounded us that implanted the idea in our head that we thought was truth, it was the sin and we are not suppose to be looking towards man to show us our self-worth, it is God! Satan, through sin, implanted a lie having us believe it as truth and walked away satisfied and every time Christ would try to rescue us out of this mythical world, Satan would place fear in front of us, causing us to hesitate when the "kick" came and possible causing us to loose ourselves to "limbo". BUT if we follow the "kick", allowing Christ to rescue us out of Satan's lies, we will arrive to reality, to the truth, the actual truth, a truth even greater than the one depicted on the movie where Cobb (the main character) was able to be back with his family. Our truth is that God loves us without agenda, without expectation, without condition. We are not a disappointment, we are good enough, worthy enough, and why? Because He, the creator of all things created US as well, for Himself so that we could be in relationship with Him. Yes, sin has screwed us up and made us believe horrible things but it's time we realized the truth and no longer allow Satan to crush our true identities with his lies.
Those little things that are planted in our impressionable minds when we are younger are called self-fullfilling prophecies. So many people get in their head the things that they are told about who they are rather than become who God wants them to be. This can be a slippery slope! Telling a child something as simple as, "you're not a morning person", could set a "standard" for the rest of their lives. That's the reason I just say I hate getting up early. LOL! LOve you!
ReplyDeleteSuch wisdom and insight you have been blessed with! I love you!
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