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God never spoke to you like that!
<p>If Jesus</p><p>wouldn’t sit across from you</p><p>and say:</p><p><br/></p><p>“You are hard to love.”</p><p>“You ruin everything.”</p><p>“You’ll never become anything.”</p><p>“No one stays because there’s nothing worth staying for.”</p><p><br/></p><p>—then why have you memorized those words</p><p>like scripture?</p><p><br/></p><p>Some of you have become fluent</p><p>in self-destruction;</p><p>You forgive strangers faster</p><p>than you forgive yourself.</p><p>You offer grace to everyone else</p><p>while feeding your own soul</p><p>to wolves.</p><p><br/></p><p>And the terrifying part is,</p><p>after a while,</p><p>the cruelty starts sounding normal.</p><p><br/></p><p>You begin calling self-hatred “humility.”</p><p>Calling shame “accountability.”</p><p>Calling exhaustion “what you deserve.”</p><p><br/></p><p>But Jesus never spoke to broken people</p><p>like they were trash waiting to be thrown away.</p><p><br/></p><p>He spoke to the woman caught in sin</p><p>with dignity.</p><p>To the doubter with patience.</p><p>To the grieving with tenderness.</p><p>To the exhausted with rest.</p><p>To the ashamed with open arms.</p><p><br/></p><p>So who taught you</p><p>that you must become your own executioner</p><p>to deserve growth?</p><p><br/></p><p>Because conviction and condemnation</p><p>are not the same thing.</p><p><br/></p><p>One says:</p><p>“you made a mistake.”</p><p><br/></p><p>The other says:</p><p>“you ARE the mistake.”</p><p><br/></p><p>And only one of those voices</p><p>sounds like Christ.</p><p><br/></p><p>You were never meant</p><p>to live with your inner voice</p><p>wrapped around your throat.</p><p><br/></p><p>You were never designed</p><p>to survive on insults, comparison, punishment,</p><p>and silent self-abandonment.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some of you speak to yourselves</p><p>in ways you would never dare speak</p><p>to someone you love.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet you wake up every day</p><p>inside the presence of your own words.</p><p><br/></p><p>Imagine carrying water</p><p>in a poisoned cup.</p><p><br/></p><p>That’s what happens</p><p>when every achievement, every mirror,</p><p>every quiet moment</p><p>is filtered through hatred.</p><p><br/></p><p>So no;</p><p>this isn’t about pretending everything is okay.</p><p><br/></p><p>It’s about refusing to become</p><p>the Pharisee of your own soul.</p><p>Because Jesus corrects people</p><p>without stripping them of worth.</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe that’s the lesson:</p><p>You can acknowledge your flaws</p><p>without worshipping your shame.</p><p><br/></p><p>You can grow</p><p>without despising yourself in the process.</p><p><br/></p><p>You can repent</p><p>without believing you are beyond love.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because if Christ Himself</p><p>wouldn’t look at you with disgust,</p><p><br/></p><p>then maybe it’s time</p><p>you stopped looking at yourself that way too.</p>
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