A New Week

Lately, a lot of lies I've been believing have been challenged. Even when things are untrue, if life is built on top of them, they hurt to take out of the equation. In social psych last chapter, we talked about the self concept. Everyone has a self schema and that your big file folder of ideas you have about you. Within that file folder, there are smaller folders of the working self concept. The more an idea is interweaved in the little file folders, the more true it is for you. 

For me, my small file folders include sister, daughter, cousin, student, granddaughter, friend, roommate, classmate, etc. The idea might be something simple like "I am an empathetic person." That particular trait about me is tied into everyone of those file folders. 
I have a lot of data from interactions and self reflection that says "True. You are empathetic."

But sometimes an idea about me isn't true and it gets in anyway. It gets into all those file folders and negatively effects every one of them. Lately, like in the past week, these lies have been confronted in a lot of arenas of my life. No matter how not true something is, my self concept has still been built on them. To extricate the lies means upsetting whatever was built on top of it. This is a painful but necessary process. 

Lately I've been focusing on the student file folder and not a whole lot else. In fact, I've forgotten to put first the most important category of ideas about myself: Daughter of the King. 
How did that get buried in the mess of life? How did I begin to believe that the promises in the Word weren't meant for me? 

What kind of file folders do you have? Mom, co worker, brother, spouse, whatever. In different situations, it is appropriate to access different file folders. But what's my main role? It has been student but a change is coming. The lies that are intertwined are getting dislodged. In terms of file folders- I'm putting the most important folder first and making sure the information in all the folders is accurate. 

This week I felt God pursue me like I have not felt in a long time.

God is Good.