How We See Ourselves

In this episode, I reflect on the importance of our own perception, is it hindering our race or helping us keep going?

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Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. It's Adam Harris. This is Running Our Race episode 3. And today I titled it How We See Ourselves. It is mainly inspired by a Bible verse that I know in Spanish a little bit better, but like I've heard it more. That talks about lo vila y lo menospreciado. Basically, the root of me wanting to choose that verse is like sometimes we still see ourselves how God found us in the beginning. So our story in the beginning, obviously, going with the Bible verse, lo vile y lo menospreciado. I'm gonna say what the Bible verses in a little bit. We see ourselves like that sometimes. Even though God has paid for us, you know, paid for our our sins, uh, he's called us redeemed, he changes our names sometimes, uh, he calls us his, his children, and we still see ourselves as lo vilo y lo menos preciado. I have the Bible verse right here. First Corinthians 1 27, and I'm gonna read all the way to 31. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong, he chose the lowly and despised things of the world and the things that are not to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. Therefore, as it is written, let him who boast boast in the Lord. I accidentally went into the next chapter. It's 1 Corinthians 2 1, and it says, When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. It is, I was kind of debating this episode, doing this episode, and man, even starting this whole podcast or whatever you want to call it, when I was thinking about it, I was thinking, man, like why would I do this? Who's even gonna watch this? And I remember a few weeks ago, I was thinking, like, why why did you stop making music? Did you do it because you felt like you weren't gonna keep being able to produce streams or money or whatever? And I remember thinking, no, you know what? I wanted to get closer to God. I I put aside something that I wanted to do because I wanted to get closer to God, and I wanted my music to get into another level spiritually, not another level fame-wise or numbers or whatever, right? Because I feel like you know what, I've gotten a hundred thousand, I have five hundred thousand on some things. Like, to me at the end of the day, like it was cool, great, thank you for supporting me. But did that really like fill me? Like, did it really help me go to sleep at night? Like, no, God is the one who helps us, and you know, like I said, they're boasting the Lord. Yes, thank god that I reached those those things. Thank God I got to uh have a song 1k few, someone for reach records. Um, thank god I got to work with some of the producers and artists that I got to work with, meet some of them. Like, yes, that's all great. At the end of the day, how we see ourselves can either keep us persevering in our race or it can hinder us. In this moment, uh where I'm going through a something, a situation that I can't really talk about, it's hurting me and it makes me not want to persevere. If I'm being very honest with you, I I was already struggling before with persevering, and now this situation has made me just want to lay in bed all day. Thinking to myself, like, man, like I started this podcast for a reason, and maybe this came in the exact time because it was to put me down, and I felt like that. I I felt like Paul right here, where he says, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you. Like, sometimes I was on these songs writing stuff, and I didn't fully understand the Bible verse, but I knew it was for someone. Maybe I didn't see myself as the smartest person, I saw myself foolish, I saw myself weak, I saw myself uh lowly and despised, I saw myself um just as a nobody. Whoever out there is watching this and you feel like you can relate to that, like maybe in Spanish, you're like thinking like, oh yo soy lobilio menos like yes, you were that, but that's not your identity anymore. Like God chose you, and now you are somebody else. Now you are who God called you to be, now you are a child of God, and so stop looking at yourself how you were in the past and start looking at yourself. And there's like so many Bible verses that say, like, you are this, you are that, you know, you are redeemed, you are you are a child of God, um, you've been sanctified. And a lot of people they still live in their sin because they're thinking about that sin more than they're thinking about how God called them out of it or God redeemed them from it. God had already like taken that desire away from them, and yet we're the ones sometimes that run back to it. When God gives us the Holy Spirit, you know, He sends those alarms and He's like, Hey, stop, stop, stop. And so sometimes we don't control our mouths, like even with things we say. You know, how we see ourselves as a child of God or how we were before is very important because we may not be able to persevere in the race, you know. We may be limping, busy over there limping, carrying things that we shouldn't be carrying on our backs, calling ourselves things that we shouldn't be calling ourselves speaking the way we shouldn't be, and we're we're the own people tripping ourselves up in our race. It's not the devil, it's not it's not um the people around you, it's not, it's just literally like it's a battle against you versus you. I just want to encourage you to reflect for a moment, think about it. Am I seeing myself how God sees me? And if I'm not, how can I get away from that to to continue persevering the way God called me to to do? Um that's all for today. I pray that this message inspires y'all and it helps y'all to continue persevering. And I'll catch y'all on the next one. Make sure to like, comment, and subscribe, and stay tuned.