When I wrote yesterday’s entry I did it because it was fresh on my mind from teaching the Victory lesson the night before. Its focus on character defects was very fresh since I’ve personally dealt with so many of them. What I wasn’t expecting was all of this being useful for yesterday. I had a new counseling client coming early yesterday morning. He is a young man in his twenties.

When this young man arrived and we greeted one another, I wondered why such a friendly young man would need counsel? He said he was very nervous but needed to talk about what troubles him. It turns out, in his own words, he struggles with beliefs about himself that he knows aren’t true, but those lies have ownership on him. As he spoke of this, I asked him if he’d heard the term character defects? He had heard it at some point more recently. I told him a little of my own story and then read to him yesterday’s entry. His response was, “Wow, so you understand.”

It is always amazing how God uses our past struggles to help others with their own once we’ve found Him in our own and given them to Him for His use. All of this gives purpose for any struggle we’ve had. It’s so rewarding to watch God do His work and to get to be a small part of it. I love this!