Liberation from Lies

This past week I was at our church summer camp, in which the speaker, Bob, preached to us about the truth of Jesus' love for us. He challenged us to confront the lies that we tell ourselves everyday and to tell these lies (which are of Satan, who is the father of all lies) to go back to Hell where they came from. He stressed that the Truth about Jesus will set us Free.

This message was super crucial for me to hear and internalize, because all of my life I've been telling myself that I'm disliked, unattractive, and useless. These labels are lies straight from the devil and he is using them as footholds to get into my life. Since God lives within me, Satan can't truly have power over me, so instead he uses my own self-doubts to weasel his way into my perspective on life and decision-making. That is the way he drags me down from God. (Luckily, God will always pursue me. When I begin to get far from Him, He will bring me back to His Truth, like by talking through Bob at our summer camp. Hurray!) The problem in the whole situation is that knowing this truth sometimes is not enough to actually believe it. Since I've been listening to Satan's lies for so long (since 2nd grade) it is difficult to remember to fight the lies. Rather than confront the lies head-on, I let them exist within me and still listen to them. Therefore, in order to be liberated, I need to immerse myself daily in God's Truth and when I feel the lies begin to penetrate me, to turn immediately to God. The Truth is that I've been blessed with people who love me, that I'm created in God's image and that I'm filled with a purpose. God's Truth will liberate me by knocking down all of Satan's footholds. Boy, am I glad that the Truth will always conquer the lies!