If we were completely honest, there are parts of all of us we wish didn’t exist.
The part that wants to take the wrong turn.
The part that says what should’ve been left unsaid.
The part that reaches for what feels good now and pays for it later.
For a long time, I thought my job was to kill that part of me.
Control it.
Bury it.
Outwork it.
I treated it like an enemy that needed to be eliminated.
But the harder I fought it, the more it kept showing up.
Not always loud.
Not always obvious.
But still there.
Then someone gave me a different perspective.
What if the goal isn’t to kill that part of me on my own?
What if the real answer is to introduce him to Jesus?
Not the polished version of me.
Not the cleaned-up version.
The real one.
The one I try to hide.
The one I hope no one sees.
The one I’ve spent years trying to manage.
Let Him meet that version of me.
Because I’ve started to realize something.
Transformation doesn’t come from pretending that part of me is gone.
It comes from bringing it into the light.
Not so I can fix it.
So He can.
And maybe the part of me I’ve been trying to kill…
is the exact place He’s been waiting to begin.
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