As a Christian there have been many times in my past that I felt unworthy of God's love and forgiveness. I clung onto that feeling for so long that it owned me. It can be the same situation with pride, money, holding on to the mistakes of the past, or acquiring material things.
The longer we hold onto something that we think will give us
fulfillment, yet still feel empty, the harder it seems to let go. The
"thing" that is being held onto reminds me of the Stockholm Syndrome.
It's being comfortable in misery.
Today, more than ever before, I know that I am a loved child of God. I have learned to unclinch my fists, which held onto those negative feelings, and accept the fact that God has already claimed me as His own and that I am truly and unconditionally loved.
1 John 3:1-2
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be
called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does
not know us, because it did not know Him.
Beloved,
now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will
be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will
see Him just as He is.
