Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my salvation.
Psalm chapter 42, verse 5.
In this past month, we learned to speak truth to our souls when fear shows up, and today
I want to take that same practice and aim it at identity.
Look what David does here.
He doesn't ignore what his soul is experiencing, maybe what he's feeling in his internal world,
but he doesn't let it lead him either.
He acknowledges it.
Soul, why are you cast down?
And then he speaks the truth to his soul.
Hope in God.
He talks to his inner world instead of being talked to by it.
And you can do the same with identity.
When the old narrative starts playing, when something inside you says, I'm not enough,
or I'm not qualified, or I haven't really changed at all, you don't have to agree with
it.
You can speak back.
I am a new creation.
I am one with Christ.
I am chosen, adopted, and accepted.
The verdict is in, and it's not changing.
That is not positive thinking like the world does.
That's the spirit-led light that scripture calls us to.
It's not a life where you think less or you feel less, but a life where truth leads the
way and it leads your whole cell to wholeness.