Collin County Living Well Magazine Winter 2014 | Page 49

Years later, as The Lord brought this memory back to me, I wondered if that’s where some of the irrational fears I worked through as a young adult might have stemmed from. Then, that all too familiar voice spoke to my heart. Michelle, this is where your sense of worthlessness comes from. In that instance, along with others like it, you got the idea that you weren’t worth fighting for. Not true! God reminded me that He was in that basement with me, and that I’m worthy because He considers me worthy. In that moment, my lie of worthlessness was completely consumed and I understood His deep and powerful love for me. There’s an awesome passage of scripture in the seventh chapter of Deuteronomy about God’s people that reads: “When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them to х