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What Limits Us
Lao Tzu said, "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." The problem is that most of us have become what we think we are supposed to be. Or worse, we have become what the world has shaped and molded us to be. Many of us are held captive by the limitations placed on us by what we think we ought to be, but have not become; or what the world tells us we should be, but feel incapable of becoming. We are the sum total of our life's experiences up to this moment. And unless we have consciously been able to combat and remove the negative fodder we've journeyed through, the probability is that most of us are yet to be what God has planned for us.
The solution? We must find a way to empty our minds of everything we think we're supposed to be, and allow the the Holy Spirit to fill those places with the truth that only comes from Christ. And that doesn't happen by continuing to do life the way we've been doing it. Nothing changes unless you change something. Change what's passing into your mind, change where it's been coming from, change how you perceive where you're going. The future has not happened yet. Until it does, you have a say in it.
Greg Tutwiler, CCLC, BCPC
Scripture verses are from the NIV unless otherwise indicated.
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Greg Tutwiler is a Certified Christian Life Coach (CCLC) a Board Certified Pastoral Counselor (BCPC), a member of the AACC and UNTCI, an Affiliate Coach, Discipleship Coach and Coach Trainer, with Blueprint For Life Institute, an ordained minister with UNTC, and co-founder of EveryManAlive ministry and TrueLife Church. Greg is also the author of the books, "Stand Your Ground," available at Amazon.com, Passages, and The Transformational Life Journal. You can visit his web site at www.freedomliving.org, or email him at coach@freedomliving.org. |
