In the last several months, with the help of a trusted friend and mentor, I\u2019ve been sifting through some big heart issues. When I showed up at TNL a couple weeks ago, I\u2019d already spent a lot of the afternoon with God, repenting for some of those heart issues. So as Jared unfolded his talk from Consuming to Cultivating, I knew right away what I was consuming and what had been consuming me and it wasn\u2019t a tangible material thing.
\nIt is my people pleasing tendencies. But it is deeper than just people pleasing. It is my overvaluing of man\u2019s praise and approval and undervaluing God\u2019s. It is letting my worth be defined by anyone other than God.
\nI first sought a mentor to be led by because I desire to live a life of joy and freedom, but don\u2019t always feel like I am actually living that life. In this journey of being led, my eyes have been opened to how I do believe God\u2019s truths about my worth with my head, but I don\u2019t truly believe them with my heart. If I did, I wouldn\u2019t be so crushed when I don\u2019t meet other people\u2019s expectations or when someone is upset with me. This constant striving for approval and worth has been leading to a type of death. Death that kills my joy. Death that blinds me to who God made me to be and the worth I have simply by being His child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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