It has been said that a person is what they eat. Someone else has said that a person is what they read. Still, another has said that a person is what they think. Solomon said, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Now to these profound statements that identify the essence of a person’s being, I would add another, which says that a person is what he or she believes. You are not only what you consume physically or what you conceptualize or internalize mentally, but you are also what you believe in your heart.
If you believe you can, then you can; if you believe you cannot, then you won’t be able to. Everything we do from the most simplest acts to the most complex tasks require that we believe in ourselves and our abilities to perform. Before we can get out of bed or lift a fork or speak a word, before we can memorize a speech or learn a lesson or drive a car, before we can quit smoking or drinking or overeating or any other habit, we must first believe that we can. And if we don’t have the strength ourselves, then we must have enough faith to believe in God and in his power of Christ to help us do what we believe; we cannot do anything by ourselves.
Yes, we are what we believe. If we believe that we are nobodies, then nobodies are all we will ever be. No one can make you into a failure; you must do that yourself. No matter how many times you’ve tried and failed, you are never a failure until you begin to believe and consider yourself to be a failure.
As long as you don’t give up, you can keep on trying. You’ll hold your head up and bounce back no matter how many times you’ve been discouraged, frustrated or disappointed. But once you give up on yourself, on God, on life, on other people, then failure is inevitable. For no person ever really starts failing until that person begins to fail from the inside out.
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