Don’t Believe the Lies
Don’t Believe the Lies. Margaret Vasquez’s Testimony. When Satan can get us to question God’s goodness and who He is as our Good Father and who we are as His beloved children, anything is possible in a really bad way. It goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden. It’s the tactic he used against Adam and Eve, and he tried it again when he tempted Jesus in the desert. Satan is not the creator and he isn’t creative. He does the same things over and over. His desire is for disunity because Jesus longs that we be one, as He prayed at the Last Supper. Satan wants to separate us from God and each other by causing division within our own minds and hearts.
Sometimes the painful circumstances of life tell us lies and when that happens often enough and from important people in our lives, we can fall into believing them. The breakdown in connection to ourselves directly affects our relationship with God because, as St. Thomas Aquinas says, “What is received is received according to the mode of the receiver.” If our ‘mode’ becomes one of ‘I don’t belong’ or ‘I’m not lovable’, then we tend to interpret events and interactions with others in that light. This even applies in terms of how we relate to the Lord.
I went through a lot of abuse in childhood and young adulthood – even from people in the Church. The resulting disconnection with myself, the Lord, and others left me vulnerable to a same sex relationship and the pain and shame of it all made going to Church so painful that I stopped going for 6 years. That caused even greater sense of disconnection and pain. It was a vicious cycle until the Lord sovereignly broke in and reestablished my foundational identity as being chosen, known, valued, protected, and provided for by Him. He completely removed all same sex attraction and showed me it was rooted in a lack of connection to myself.
Don’t believe the lie that it is how you were born and not something that can be healed.
The Lord said, “Behold, I make ALL things new.” – Revelation 21:5. Nothing is impossible to Him.
This is my testimony to His love, His power, His grace, His healing, and His infinite, unearned mercy in my life.
Thanks for listening. To God be the glory!
- Margaret
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