Stop the Voices in Your Head

Meet Jake.  He is a freshman in college.  And he is a bit scared.  He is taking an English class.  The assignment last week was to read a certain book and then write a report on that book.  Jake hates reading, and he is anything but a writer. 

But he tackled the project anyway.

He read, and then he wrote. 

Except he read the wrong book.  HE READ THE WRONG BOOK. 

Jake was devastated.  He felt horrible, and the voices in his head were the worst.

   I’m a loser.

      I’m a dumb kid.

         I am a nobody.

What is worse than hearing voices like that?

Believing what those voices say.  That is worse.

We’ve all been there.  I have.  You probably have too. 

A personal moment … that happened to me this past Christmas.  I looked at the Apple watch for several months before Christmas, and every time I looked I heard … “You’re not worthy of a watch like that.  You’re a poor boy from Tennessee.  You used to wear black tennis shoes that were torn and dirty.  Your jeans had holes in them.  Who do you think you are wanting a watch of that quality?”

My wife … my loving and kind and grace-filled wife came alongside of me and said the right words, the healing words, the esteeming words and today, on my left wrist I am wearing a lovely, quality time piece called the Apple watch.

Those damn voices are destructive.  They are killers.  They maim, they stifle, they stop you in your tracks.

They get in the way of the great job.

They get in the way of the dream home.

They get in the way of goals and dreams.

I say … IT IS TIME TO STOP THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD!

You are not your past.

You are not your mistakes.

You are not whatever bad deeds, bad thoughts, or lousy failures you may have experienced in the past.

You are YOU.  You are a worthwhile individual.  You are not your mistakes.

Did you get that?

YOU ARE NOT YOUR MISTAKES!!!

Thank God for some individuals who have come along beside you and me in life.  They are people who have believed in us.  People who cared for us.  People who looked beyond our dirty shoes, torn jeans, and bad manners. 

They looked beyond all that and saw a worthwhile young man or young woman.  They saw someone with a future standing there, and made it a point to add to what they saw.  Not take away … no, no.  They added to you and me.

You see the point here …

We are not what others say about us.

Our circumstances don’t define us.

Our past failures don’t define us.

Say it with me …

I am somebody.

I am a worthwhile human being.

I am worthy of love.

I like myself.  I really do like myself.

I am capable of surpassing the worst days of my life and I look forward to the best days of my life.  

I AM A MIRACLE OF GOD AND A

BECOMER!

Now, repeat those last words about one-hundred times a day.  And when doubts set in, double that dose.

Do you believe in YOU?

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