Daily pearls from the shore 🫧

Heritage

People are like a goods train, carrying so much inside them but never stopping to offload any of it. Then, one day, everything stops. The mind gives up, stops co-operating with demands.

Trauma is still part of everyday life. There are accusations, betrayals, and shame forced onto many of us by families, workplaces, and communities in the form of verbal or physical abuse, gaslighting, etc.

It can also project from within us as self-condemnation, self-doubt, and guilt, causing us to live in deep darkness.

Regardless of where the toxicity comes from or which mode it uses to attack, it affects the whole being of an individual. And then it translates into labels which we end up attaching to our identities.

But is that all it is?

“In righteousness you will be established” (Isaiah 54:14)
The highest truth about you and me is the righteousness of God for us. That is our identity given through the finished work of Jesus Christ.
We, humans, are born into a fallen world. Our beings fall prey to sin and failure. Not only that we blame everything happening wrong to us onto GOD.

This is the biggest lie mankind believes.

The same God says differently.
“Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you. If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you.” (Isaiah 54:14-15)

This is a very important fact that the world is missing out on: The knowledge of God, God’s character and love for us. Any harm that occurs has never been directed by GOD. “It will not be my doing”

God has safeguarded us against any form of tyranny. It can be a physical or mental attack, but it will not be able to get to you. Even if we find ourselves in depression, anxiety, or a financial crunch, the very assurance helps us reframe our minds that the attacker will be taken far away from us. “TERROR WILL BE FAR REMOVED.” Simply put, you will not be sabotaged by the attack. You will get out of it.

People suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, and similar mental health struggles suffer a different level of fear due to auditory and visual hallucinations. But there is hope and peace in knowing that “YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR.”
People living in terror-affected zones suffer huge dread for their lives, but God says, “IT WILL NOT COME NEAR”

It further states that if you still experience attacks verbally, physically, or in any other form of accusation or harm, your attacker will not get away with his wrongdoing, but God will make sure “WHOEVER ATTACKS YOU WILL SURRENDER TO YOU.”

“No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord.” (Isaiah 54:17)

Whether it is anxiety or depression, failure or sickness, “NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU SHALL PROSPER.” It will not be able to destroy you. The very knowledge of the fact that the Almighty God declares the ineffectiveness of weapons against you is encouraging.

Further, it affirms that any kind of attack on your identity, such as abusive words, labels, calling names, false accusations, malice, gossip, or anything said that might have caused pain, hurt or damage to your reputation, you will condemn “EVERY TONGUE WHICH RISES AGAINST YOU IN JUDGMENT YOU SHALL CONDEMN.”

Sin, guilt, shame, or self-condemnation doesn’t have to weigh us down.
Knowing your identity in the righteousness of God will help you see yourself through that lens.
You would be able to rebuke every attack. You would prove every label a lie.

Wear the correct lens,
Put on righteousness,
You have a heritage with God.