The Less Mindset

Some days I wake up and look at what I’m not: I’m not thin enough, smart enough, rich enough, successful enough—it’s a long list that can go on and on.  When I wake up feeling that way, I have to remind myself with God there is an even longer list of what I am: I am a daughter of the most High, a blessed and beautiful princess of the King.  I am forgiven, free, loved.  I belong.

Yet too often I accept a “less” mindset.  I see what I’m not and I either feel bad about myself or get apathetic and complacent, convinced I can never change.  So I quit striving to grow because I’m too down on myself to do anything.  I accept being less.  Ever been there?

It’s in those moments I have to remind myself first and foremost I am a child of God, perfectly created and worthy of love and belonging.  I am not defined by my achievements or my lack of them.  I am defined by my God who loves me with an everlasting love and wants to see me shine.  God doesn’t care how fat or skinny I am, how much money I make or about how much I achieve.  He cares about me; the person inside. 

To Ponder:  Ephesians 3:16-19 ^" I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." (NIV)