Lies That We Believe In

I think one of the biggest parts of Biblical counseling and spiritual warfare is acknowledging that we have an Enemy who hates us with a passion, and that his biggest tactic in keeping us in bondage is giving us plausible lies to believe in. He crafts these lies to be custom made for each person he is assaulting. I am writing this blog page to write out lies as I think of them. I was thinking about the lies that I have believed in all my life and now that I am grounded in the word of God, to some degree, I see what they are. I had no idea before this, that I was being lied to. So here is my first article on the lies I have taken in. See if you can relate.

       I was thinking about my life journey when I was a kid. I am aware of many of the lies of the devil that I believed were true about me. One of them was concerning rejection. Because of the sense of serious rejection I had, I assumed it was a mark that would follow me the rest of my life. It seemed to be part of my identity. Because I was rejected by children that were my age, I assumed that this momentum would carry out the rest of my life. I assumed that because children rejected me when I was young, as I got older, that boys would reject me as well. I assumed that because boys would reject me, I would never be able to get married. I wanted to get married and be a homemaker and mother all my life, but I guess that wasn’t going to happen because people rejected me, and I falsely assumed that I was destined to a life of rejected. I would never marry and have a family because guys would reject me. I believed the lie that said I had to be of the highest physical attraction to make a guy like me, so I could get married and have a family, and do what I was designed to do, so I concentrated on my physical appearance to an abnormal degree.  What I didn’t understand was that God was in control of my situations, and that He would cause me to turn to Him in repentance and faith, and that I would meet the person that He had in mind for me to marry, when the time was right. If I would have known that all along, my life would have been much different than what it was. It would have had its own challenges, but the grace of God would have been there to work through it with. I didn't know the word of God as a child, and it would have helped me understand reality better.