If you've ever been victimized, in any way, you no doubt have carried the weight of that trauma for far too long and if you're like me you've branded yourself a "victim." The problem with the label of victim is the mentality it breeds and the strongholds it forges in your soul. Years after the trauma, the "victim" is still tethered to and identified by the very crimes and offenses they're trying to escape --you live each day of your present a slave to the past. THIS is not freedom!
A victim mentality will contaminate everything it touches and every life it comes in contact with, eventually tainting and putrefying all that it encounters, leaving behind a stench of rotting flesh.
From one former "victim" to the many others who may relate, THIS is not freedom!
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"It is for freedom
that Christ has set us free."-Galatians 5:1
Accepting anything less than freedom is accepting less than what Christ came to give you and me. Accepting the title of victim-- allowing it to shape and define who you are, letting it influence how you act, and giving it a vote in the choices you make--is CHOOSING to live enslaved. Again I say, THIS is not freedom!
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Paul's declaration, "Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners of whom I am the chief."-(1 Timothy 1:15) resonates with me, with a slight variation...I often think of it this way-Christ Jesus came into the world to save VICTIMS, of whom I've been the chief.
See, I don't type from a soap box of self-righteousness and finger-pointing, but from humble gratitude for my rescue from bondage. I once was lost and now I am found. I was once blinded by the cataracts that years of being wounded and mistreated, abused and violated left behind, and now I see. I was once bitter and jaded BY CHOICE and I believed the lie that the world and everyone in it was out to get me and out to hurt me, and that they somehow owed me. Today I am healed, I am whole, I am restored- I am a brand new creation!!! I was once a victim and now I'm a Daddy's girl, a beloved bride, and a treasured princess-- THIS is freedom!!!
I urge you, if you are wearing the label of victim, letting it sabotage the life and liberty that God has for you and keep you from knowing TRUE peace and healing, lay it down and invite the Truth to set you free. Be free. Be completely free.
"It is for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore KEEP standing firm and do not be entangled with a yoke of bondage!" -Galatians 5:1
"For, whom the Lord sets free is free indeed!" (John 8:36)
Let yourself lay down the label, the title, the identity of victim--recognize, it only victimizes you more! "Victims" can never be free. Victims can never be more than slaves.
Go ahead. Make the choice right now to be free. Say goodbye to Victim and let Freedom be your new name...
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