Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely by Lysa TerKeurst

Author:Lysa TerKeurst [TerKeurst, Lysa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2016-08-08T22:00:00+00:00

As I studied these scriptures, I really felt I was beginning to understand how this relates to my struggle with rejection.

If I look at my dreams, desires, and hopes for the future as coming from a place of scarcity and the world’s limited supply, it will constantly feed the notion that someone else’s success is a threat to mine. In other words, this person getting opportunities means less opportunity for me. Pharaoh, prompted by a dream drenched in fear, processed his worries through earthly thinking unguided by God. And suddenly other people having free access to food felt like a threat to him. That’s not wisdom. That’s fear. That’s not how we are to process life.

We are to process life by looking up to the Lord and into His Word for wisdom. James 3:14–15 (ESV) says, “If you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.”

What steals your heart away from God’s wisdom? Might I take a tiny stab at what I think might have stolen at least a small part of you in the last hour? Social media.

Wait! Don’t put the book down thinking I’m slamming social media. There are definitely good things happening there. But if it’s stealing your heart away from God’s wisdom, it’s filling you with something else. This is something I know all too well.

It’s easy to scroll and surf through postings—where people upload the beautiful, successful, shiny sides of life—and quickly get a jilted notion that maybe we’re not quite keeping up. We feel small. Unnoticed. Incapable.

One day I realized I had to stop looking at things spotlighting others’ successes until I had a better way of processing them. Until I could look at others and genuinely celebrate their lives without feeling anything but joy for them. I had to starve my scarcity thinking. How did I do this?

I started to ask Him to bless others and prayed this verse of abundance over them.

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