Perspective.
The way you see things.
How you make choices.
How you choose to live.
Who or what helps to shape a perspective?
For a long time,
following the world’s perspective was the way I learned.
I feared to go against what felt wrong but what the world kept convincing me was okay. I felt too weak to stand up. I wasn’t taught to do otherwise.
Being taught about who I am “supposed to be” through harmful things that happened to me and others.
It is so unfortunate that I am not the only one who has to learn to survive through the same things…
Then came my self-worth, which I believed was literally acceptance from people.
I heard plenty about God, but not enough Truth about Him to know to trust Him for my acceptance.
So I wandered here and there, absorbing false information, building my personhood and perspective brick by brick on lies and falsehoods.
But then one day it changed…
The Truth and the Light came.
The Key pierced THROUGH the deep well of darkness that pressed me down.
That darkness blinded my perspective of the power that the Lord gave me through the death of Jesus. The same power that rose Jesus from the dead was mine…
My sadly shaped perspective convinced me that I had no power.
That I had to submit to unhealthy boundaries and thoughts I’d shaped about myself because of what happened to me.
But now I know better because God rescued me from the deep wounds and lies.
He shaped my perspective to be guided by the lens He uses towards me and others.
I am still on a journey to healing… perhaps a journey I will take for the rest of my time on this side of heaven.
But I have the Key, which is God’s Truth and Light through Jesus.
I never have to stay behind any enemy’s door because I have a new perspective and I have the Key.
I won’t have to ever be trapped again.
by Erica Russell
