Self-criticism is crushing, but God can free us from it. All we have to do is be teachable.
What we’ve experienced is that living by religious rules is a very tempting way to avoid facing the insecurities in our hearts.
When we are insecure, it can be easy to feel like we are a “nobody going nowhere.”
A courageous person is someone who isn’t shaken by circumstances, may experience fear but doesn’t live in it, and is secure and strong no matter what. Does this describe you?