I don't know how is it for men, but I think one of women's major struggles is with our image. How fat do we look? How old do we look? What do others think of us? There is a self-inflicted demand on "keeping it together at all times" and "being at the top of our game" in a world that condemns transparency. We live our lives never letting others see when we are about to crack. We have built a perfect image of ourselves(what we want others to think of us) and we are proud of it. We love the praise and adoration our image receives and we can never imagine life without it. Does it sounds familiar?
My bible group and I have been studying for several weeks the book of Daniel and it has been quite a trip! We live in a modern day Babylon, my friend!.This world worships the image. The spirit of Nebuchadnezzar is alive and well and it demands to be worshiped. So we have built an image of ourselves. Big, strong and made of solid gold. "Take the eyes of me and look at the image of me!"
Pride is a hidden sin. It hides so well you will never see it's there (or acknowledge it's presence). You won't see people confessing that very often, yet it is at the center of every sin. Anger, un-forgiveness, bitterness and jealousy have deep roots of pride.
Pride was the architect behind Nebuchadnezzar's image and it is the architect behind ours.
Have you built an image of yourself? I know I have and in times like this, when I present myself the most vulnerable to God, I allow him to show me the hidden pride in my life. Is it easy? No. I wrestle with it and when I think it is over, HE shows me more. Pride wants to hide so it stays in control, but "truth"(HIS truth) does not want just a few parts of my life, it wants it ALL!
We made it half way, and oh boy has He dealt with me!!I know that for many of you this has been a "quite interesting" fast, on the amount of personal revelation you have received and on how God has exposed different areas of your life as you had got closer to the fire. I know it hurts, but I would not want it any other way!
Maybe you didn't make the commitment to fast during the 40 days. Maybe you are fasting to some small degree, but you know there is somewhere you have to go and you don't know how to get there. Then I suggest you kick it up a notch!. Make a bigger commitment during the last few weeks. True fasting HURTS because it deals directly with you, your wants, your desires, your PRIDE. It is time to take the image down and be what God wants us to be so we can step in the destiny and the calling He has designed for us!
I am expecting great things this week! I can hear the sound of many images falling down before His feet and I love it!
Taking it down...
Karina
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