Why you won’t embrace your purpose

You have been shaped by God to see a crying need and join Him in doing something about it. This is your purpose…your reason to be.

But you won’t let yourself see it (or do it) because:

It feels too unsafe to surrender to a higher claim. You choose to remain firmly at the center and in control of your own life;

You feel guilty over past actions. So, you judge yourself as undeserving;

Other people have mistreated you, even abused you. It’s absolutely true—you are a victim. You honor your victimhood because no one else will. To rise up and take the place of healer alongside God feels like betrayal of yourself and what’s been done to you;

The only snippets of love you ever get is when someone rescues you with money, a ride, a room… If you give that up and seek to help others instead, you will lose love;

You are afraid of failing. Afraid of being disappointed—again;

Living uninvolved, at a distance, and needing no one is easier;

You want to stay in the gray world of not straining to change things. It’s what you know.

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© 2011 by Gloria Rose

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