#onebigtruth

Instead of our usual Build ‘Em Up with Kelly, Courtney, and Jennifer, and instead of my normal Creating White Space post, I am linking up with Courtney for a really special link up called One Big Truth.

 

And we want as many of you to participate as possible.

I have told myself so many lies over the years. The enemy will get into my head and have me believing things that aren’t true.

Things like, “I am defined by my weight.” (We covered that already this week.)

“I am defined by my possessions.”

“I am defined by how clean my home is.”

“I am defined by how well my children behave.”

But the one I struggle with right now is this one.

“I look to people for affirmation.”

And here’s the truth.

“He has already affirmed me. It has been covered.”

Because here’s the thing. That feeling of striving and trying and pushing and doing all the things in hopes that someone will say those magic words that affirm me. Tell me I’m doing a great job or tell me I’m needed? That right there robs me of my white space.

It clutters my heart and my mind, and even my home.

But it’s covered. He has affirmed me!

Sweet Jessi hammered this scripture home for me at the Influence Conference a couple of weeks ago, and now I say it to myself at least once a day.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

My precious friend Amy Petersen has started a new blog where she is currently writing for 31 Days about Mistaken Identity. We asked her to share this incredible truth with all of you today.

ONE BIG TRUTH: Mephibosheth by Amy Ruth Petersen

ONE BIG TRUTH can change your life. Peer in with me as we pull back the curtain in the life of Mephibosheth.

Broken. Hopeless. Dependent.  With his crippled feet and despondent spirit, Mephibosheth was carried into the presence of King David. Shaking with the uncertainty of the king’s intent, Mephibosheth fell on his face in submission and fear (2 Samuel 9:6). With panted breath and trembling, his memories drifted back to the tragic events of his life that led him to this moment:

• He lost his future due to his grandfather’s disobedience (1 Samuel 15:17, 28).

• He lost his family (both his father and grandfather) in battle (2 Samuel 4:4).

• He lost his independence and was crippled in both feet. Fleeing from the palace, his nurse dropped him when she fell (2 Samuel 4:4).

• He lost honor and lived unnoticed in Lo Debar under the care of provision of another (2 Samuel 9:4).

His life was riddled with disappointment and tragic loss. He was broken… before his encounter with this ONE BIG TRUTH:

God loves and restores the broken.

In that moment with his face to the floor, the kind and generous words of the king offered hope to his hopelessness. The king who had made a promise and intended to keep it (2 Samuel 9:7).

Recoiling in disbelief, Mephibosheth spewed out disgust for his very existence by saying “What is your servant that you should notice a dead dog [garbage] like me?” (2 Samuel 9:8)

In strength and faithfulness, King David lovingly lifts the crippled and defeated man and restores honor, provision, and position to all that he had lost (2 Samuel 9:9-10).

Before…broken.

After…loved and restored.

In gaped amazement, Mephibosheth hears one word…always (2 Samuel 9:13). ONE BIG TRUTH changed his life.

So what one lie do you tell yourself and what is your one big truth? Link up with us or post it on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter with the hashtag #onebigtruth.