Demolishing Strongholds

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.

2 Corinthians 10:3

By the time my narcissistic spouse said, “I don’t love you” for the third time, I concluded, “I must learn to manage a home and finish raising the children without his love—since that must be all God has for me, a loveless marriage.”

That distorted and false belief still stuns and saddens me. It occupied a place scripture identifies as a “stronghold” in my thinking—"human reasoning and false arguments” (2 Cor. 10:4 NLT).

Unraveling such a distorted belief required reflecting upon my childhood attachment wound defined by Ross Rosenberg* as a child “loving but feeling unseen.” As a young girl with typical egocentric thinking and an emotionally unavailable father, I unconsciously concluded, “I am not special enough to be loved, not worthy of his love.”

Satan would like to keep me believing that lie I brought with me into adulthood. Instead, God has exposed that distorted belief with His Word, the belt of truth. Christ loved “me” and gave himself up for “me” as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God (Eph. 5:2b emphasis mine). I also request from the Lord what Paul prayed for the Ephesian believers, “to have the power together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge…” (Eph. 3:18-19).

Father, thank You for revealing the lie that lingered from childhood for breaking down that stronghold. Thank You for loving me passionately and unconditionally. I ask that You continue to reveal to me any other distortions that contradict your Word, so I may live empowered by Your truth. “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more that all I ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within me….” (Eph. 3:20) I pray. Amen!

*Ross Rosenberg; http://.www.selfloverecovery.com

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