Designing My Destiny

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Brother, welcome, and congrats on taking charge. Most of us are in the fight and changing habits takes time. It also takes a willingness to do two things (IMO): 1) choose to love yourself. No one I know has shamed themselves out of this habit. It just doesn’t work. But the Lord doesn’t use shame and there’s an important lesson in that - focus on love. Love because you’re choosing to be better. Love because you care enough about your covenants with God to do a hard thing. Someone I heard speak years ago said something to the effect of “ God doesn’t care nearly as much about where you’ve been as He does about where you’re going.” 2) Be patient and learn. It would be great if one day we all woke up and didn’t have this habit any more. But that’s not how it works for most of us. You see people here taking one step, one day at a time. Let God fill in the gaps and allow this weakness to sanctify yourself. Yea, it ducks and it feels bad. AND, you can come closer to God and know yourself better because of it - not in spite of it. Trust God to guide you along, be patient and focus on progress. You’ll hear a voice saying you should give up, or you should feel ashamed, or you’re a bad person. Just know that’s not from God. He will be the one cheering you on, waving the banner each time you try again, giving you the chance to experience grace as He helps you reach your goals. It probably won’t happen all at once. But it will happen, being chest deep in the fight can be a holy place. So don’t beat yourself up if you’re trying to do the right thing. Things will get better, you’ll become stronger, you’ll see His hand in your life. Take courage, He’s already won the fight for you, you just have to step into that man He already knows you are.