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What Do You Believe In?

Do you believe what has been told to you most frequently, or the words of someone with more authority than yourself—a mother, a teacher, or a boss? Or do you believe the truth?

Do you believe what has been told to you most frequently, or the words of someone with more authority than yourself—a mother, a teacher, or a boss? Or do you believe the truth?

This holiday season we are more and more talking about “believing.” Do you believe in the magic of Santa Claus? Do you believe in flying red sleighs and dancing green elves? Do you believe in our Savior being born in a manger to a virgin woman? Do you believe in God? For every faith, or lack of, there seems to be something in this season to believe in.

However, at Morning Star Church, the staff recently dived into a new book and so now there is something more than nativity scenes, reindeer games or a nine-branched Menorah on my mind.

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I'm Sensitive. I’m thinking of a woman who is continually told by her ex-husband that she is unstable and needs counseling. She believes she may just be crazy. A man who is was left behind and cheated on by a spouse. He believes he may just not be worthy of love.

I’m thinking of a child who grew up with few hugs and too few “I love yous.” Who grew up being told that they would never amount to pennies, abandoned in an empty house while their mother searches out her next fix. What is their truth? What do they believe about themselves?

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We start to believe in those statements. We start to believe that those statements are the truth. In turn, those beliefs begin to affect our behavior.

I’m reminded of a CD I use to play over and over, and over, while in college. On the artist Jewel’s album Pieces of You, there is a song called “I’m Sensitive."

          I have this theory, that if we're told we're bad

          Then that's the only idea we'll ever have

          But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty

          Someday we will become what we see

If we “surrounded ourselves in beauty / someday we will become what we see.” I'm in love with that line. Because of that idea, every day I kiss my son about a hundred times, telling him how much I love him, how proud I am of him, how he will always be my baby. But he’s only 6 years old. One day, he will be out of my hugging reach. One day, he will be faced with another adult feeding him lies about himself. So what can we do as parents?

What is the truth? The truth, according to The Grace Life Handbook, is the Word of God. Studying His Word and His truths, we learn that we are indeed worthy of love. And how incredible is it to know that someone is out there, loving us no matter what we do? No matter what anyone else says?

Being a Christian is more than accepting God into our lives, and believing that He exists. Christianity about trusting in Him and learning about his truths.

(John 14:6) Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

If we surround ourselves in the beauty of the truth of God, if we teach our children the fact that in Him all our sins are forgiven, that He loves us, and that His Word is the truth, will that not set us free? Will that not set us free from the bondage of lies told to us by others?

Let’s equip our children with His Word. Let’s provide them with the tools to disband the lies and instead know the truth, so that they can become what God sees.

What lies are you believing about yourself today?

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