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.”
God doesn’t want us to feel like we have to conform in order to be accepted, and wants to help us become strong enough to stand for what we believe and who we are.