Piggy-Backing Believe

One of the most interesting truths concerning "believe" is what I call the pecking order of believe. It goes something like this; if a person whom we consider to be above us or in authority over us believes a negative thing about us we become immediately in bondage to whatever it is they believe. Their "believe" traps us and holds us down. It acts like a radio scrambler and causes what we know to be true of ourselves to suddenly sputter and crackle until we lose all contact with our very identity. It is perhaps the most confusing and devastating experience a person can endure. I liken it to waking up in a state prison on death row with total Amnesia. You don't know who you are, what you've done or why you're there. The only thing you are certain of is that you must be a pretty bad person.

This is why the "believe" of a mother or father is absolutely the most powerful thing in a child's life. It can either empower them or destroy them. There is something about us human beings that causes our "believe" to submit to the "believe" of someone we love and trust. If we're lucky, we'll have parents and mentors who coddle and nurture us with their "believe" instead of strangling us. Childhood is perhaps the most vulnerable time in our lives because in many ways we are at the mercy of the "believe" of others. At the same time it must be this way because our "believe" is not mature enough to protect and guide us through life. Children naturally piggy-back their "believe" on the people they love. A parent's "believe" is a thousand times stronger than a child's, and it provides strength, security and stability to an otherwise defenseless child.

Having said all of this, I want to highlight the importance of KNOWING what our Father believes about us. All of humanity naturally piggy-backs their "believe" on what the ultimate authority in the universe believes about them. If we believe that God doesn't love us or believe in us, our entire life will follow suit. This is precisely what religious bondage is! The "freedom" that Paul talks about all through the New Testament is freedom from this way of thinking. Paul was basically telling everyone that God's "believe" in us is not based on our performance, like religion had taught. He was rejoicing because the Creator of the Universe actually believes in His creation! He believes in YOU. Up until that time, religion had taught the people that God didn't believe in them because they were bad; but now the message was made clear and the mystery was revealed.

What we think about God, MATTERS. What we think God thinks of us MATTERS. It either compels us or repels us. It is virtually impossible to be drawn to God with what we have been taught about Him by religion. Until we deal with how we feel He sees us, I don't believe there will be any healing at all. I find it interesting that when people finally get the revelation that God is crazy about them, they almost always leave their religion and never return. It's like we all know in our hearts that religion is the culprit. Religion is the liar that made us afraid of Him and taught us that He was disappointed in us.

Most Christian people believe that God loves them but He doesn't like anything about them. He loves them because He has too, but if He were to be asked about them as a person, He would have to come clean and confess that there is not much to like. He sees that we are as filthy rags. He sees that there is no good in us. He sees that we are not worthy. He sees our destructive sinful nature. He knows every struggle, attitude, thought and disposition we have. Though God loves the essence of us, He doesn't like anything having to do with the physical and mental parts of us.

I will tell you that my entire life changed the moment I discovered that this way of thinking isn't true. In fact, the very day I realized that He actually liked everything about me and He was crazy about me, I exploded into life. When I found out that God didn't look at me and see all my faults and failures, I was blown away. He actually thinks I'm funny. He thinks I'm brilliant. He loves the way I reason through situations and problems. He likes being around me and He's proud of me. He never looks at me and thinks to Himself, "He is not worthy of me." That's the furthest thing from His mind. In fact, He looks at me and says, "I want to make sure that he becomes greater and greater!" Understanding that God not only loves me, but He likes me was the beginning of life itself.

I think most Christians have never embraced themselves because they've been taught that their inner person is the part of them that God despises because of His Holiness. They've been told that God is constantly trying to change everything about them because they are so screwed up. Living inside of God's love is impossible if that's what you believe. Step one is to come to the understanding that He doesn't think this way about you. He sees you as perfect. You are as clean, white and pure as Jesus Christ Himself. When God looks at you, He sees YOU and nothing else.

My middle child is the loudest, most disruptive, strong willed, bad ass, independent child I've ever seen in my life. The other day in school a little boy kicked her underneath the table. When I heard about it I immediately thought to myself, "Uh oh!" My daughter climbed over the top of the table and unleashed a can of whoop-ass on this poor boy that left him curled up in the corner sucking his thumb for the next hour and a half.

Now.............obviously when I hear about this, I know that we have to work on controlling this "inner-city-gang-leader" spirit my daughter has going on inside of her. The last thing I want to do however is snuff it out. This is the thing about her that I love the most. I pray that it never leaves her. In fact, my life is about fine tuning it and making sure that it gets even stronger as she grows up. She knows I love this about her. She also knows that I want her to be in complete control of it.

Religion teaches us that our Father wants to get rid of the spirit within us because it's bad and wrong. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is imperative that we know for sure what God believes about us. The very things that you think He is wanting to change about you could quite possibly be the things He loves most. Sadly, most Christians spend a life time trying to snuff out aspects of their personality that God is hoping to accentuate and heighten! I honestly don't believe that life even begins until we are in tune with what our Father believes about us. Sadly, because of religion, most of us are completely upside-down on this one point.

The power of "believe" is just as powerful when it comes from God as it is when it comes from us. My goal is to show a generation how to catch a "believe wave" and ride it into shore. We were all created to be carried by God's belief in us. The foundational power of the New Testament is the knowledge that God believes in YOU. This is impossible to grasp for most modern day Christians because of what we've been taught. It is absolutely imperative that we step outside of what we've been told and open our hearts to a new truth about How God sees us.