Know the Truth

Today’s Post By: Rae Lynn DeAngelisIt is only against the backdrop of something genuine that one can truly discern when something is counterfeit.  Did you know that grocery store clerks study genuine one-hundred dollar bills so they can recognize counterfeit money?In the same way, one cannot determine a lie if he does not know the truth.For years I believed many lies about myself… I can only be loved if I am thin. I can never eat like a normal person. My worth and value come from what others think of me. If I look just right, I will find true happiness. Before I knew it, I was entangled in a twenty-five year bondage to an eating disorder called bulimia.It wasn’t until I grew a passion for God’s Word and began to study truth that I could recognize my previous thought patterns were lies. Day after day, Satan whispered his lies to me through this sin filled world and my own fleshly desires.I later came to realize that my bondage to bulimia was not the real issue. It was merely a symptom of a greater problem. The real problem was in my mind–a distorted way of thinking. Like weeding a garden, I had to uproot the many lies I had come to believe about myself and replace them with the truth–God’s truth. I needed God to renew my mind to His way of thinking.Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world