God Doesn’t Want You To Live As A Filtered Version of Yourself

You learned early on what version of you felt safest for others—the agreeable one, the quiet one, the strong one, the one who didn’t ask for too much.

You became good at watering yourself down so others wouldn’t reject you, so no one you cared about would leave. And somewhere along that journey, the mask you clung to—the character you reflected externally—stopped feeling like something you simply put on or performed. It started to feel like who you were.

For the Lord does...