No Victim Mentality, Because He Lives

In this fallen world many challenges are inevitable, we feel insecure as we face uncertainty, we plan our way out in fear, we try to be in control, we struggle to keep afloat, all the potential dangers have made us in "survival mode". 

After quite relatively long period of a challenge, as usual, I woke up in the morning just to be reminded of my challenge..day by day I saw no change. What I saw was a big lack in me, no love, joy & peace, no abundance of life, life was painful. Out of this desperation I prayed to the Lord for a breakthrough. 

Then a revelation hit me, I believe this thought is His : He reminded me that I'd been using the lens of pain & despair to see life. With this lens I saw that my problem canceled His blessings & promises to me, that what made me desperate. Then He asked me to see from His lens, as a majestic God He shouldn't have come as human & suffered, but because of His love He thought it's needed for Him to come down & redeem me from all the curse. 

Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree” ) 

He already foresaw my challenges even before I was born because He's outside time (or anyone mistakes, at the end it's just a consequences of the fallen world anyway). 

Psalm 139:16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. 

And if He is the One who fashioned my days, for sure my days are good 

Psalm 139:17-18 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You. 

It means the challenges that wanted to ruin His plan for me are not of Him. He troubled Himself to become human & came down for me (I personalised His love for me) to redeem all the curses & my mistakes so that I could be blessed. (If He didn't do what He did, I would have deserve the consequences of my own sins - as a just God He can't just erase sins as if nothing happen, it needs punishment). 

I began to see the sacrifice He made for me, how troublesome to become a man called Jesus, He chose to be born in poor family, He lived a life of rejection, and at the end He gave Himself to be the sacrificial lamb of God for my sins. I imagined how much the pain, shame, condemnation He was experiencing during His passion 

Hebrews 12:2 ...who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God..

It's not the nails that hold Him on the cross, it's His love to me. Even before He was crucified He said in 

John 10:18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father 

With this I saw my life not from the lens of my pain (which gains nothing, just adding more despair as I agree to the fear that's offered to me) but from His purposeful pain (it's actually my pain He bore). 

Isaiah 53:4-5 (YLT) Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains - he hath carried them, And we -we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted. And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace [is] on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us. 

When I agree with the truth of His words (rather than the carnal mind that try to keep my feeling in fear) I felt His love & peace. He foresaw the problem I would face & He calculated that in His redemption for me as He loves me, and on the cross He said "It's finished" (John 19:30) - it means my seemingly big problem cannot cancel His love & breakthrough He's made it happen for me, it's His love & His perfect work on the cross are the one that canceled my big problem. 

He's got faith in what He did, He didn't miscalculate it. I just need to keep myself in this truth. My life is no longer about how perfect/strong/smart I am, but how good He is to me. My sins problem ended on His body on the cross hence nothing can stop His love manifest in my life, now I'm on a favour ground. 

Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 

While the "world" is trying to convince me how dangers are lurking at me, His "word" convince me how safe I'm in Him. I can disagree with "victim mentality" spirit as Jesus has become the victim on my behalf. 

A snippet of the lyrics from a beautiful hymn, Because He Lives - 

Because He lives, I can face tomorrow, 

Because He lives, all fear is gone; 

Because I know He holds the future, 

And life is worth the living, Just because He lives! 

Even when you fell desperate, God loves you personally. I pray for the revelation of God's sacrificial love hits you personally.There's hope for you 

Happy Resurrection Day 2025