ARE YOU SELLING YOURSELF SHORT?
Have you ever trusted other people with their opinion, guidance, and wisdom above your own? Have you ever felt like those around you were one up from yourself? If you have you are not alone. Over the last couple of years, I have observed that I have not had the faith I should when it comes to myself. It seems as if I was always allowing the self-critic in me to make me think that I was not enough, that I wasn’t able, that I wasn’t strong enough or wise enough, etc., instead of trusting in what God says about me. This caused me to spend many years looking to everyone else for my answers and to be honest with you I made many mistakes in the process. Not that we should not seek counsel or receive professional advice and opinions, but we ultimately should be the one making the final decision. I, however, found myself doing things that others wanted me to do or thought I should do instead of doing what I felt I should do or doing things that I didn’t want to do. I was allowing my self-critic to dictate to me what I could and could not do. When we allow our thoughts and others’ opinions to rule us, we sell ourselves short. God has created each of us uniquely, gifted and set apart to achieve and accomplish only that which you can do. No one else is qualified to be you. We need not to compare ourselves with others nor doubt ourselves when we know who we are in him and are called to his purpose.
“Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” Ephesians 3:20
When we realize that it is God who works through us and for us, we then have the confidence in him to do what may seem impossible. What are your dreams? What are your goals? Are they grounded in Christ? If so, God is on your side. If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)
So many times in my life I have taken the easy way or settled for whatever was available at the time rather than putting my trust in him. I have sold myself short in my personal life, my business life, and my relationships through unbelief and not allowing God to do above and beyond all that I could ask or think. It is so easy to become impatient and wind up in our own strength settling for less. I encourage you today to trust him and wait on him to give you the desires of your heart and not sell yourself short.
“Blessed (with spiritual security) is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord and whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord. “For he will be (nourished) like a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river; and will not fear the heat when it comes; but its leaves will be green and moist. And it will not be anxious and concerned in a year of drought nor stop bearing fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8 (AMP)?
