Learning to Trust Yourself

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This morning I invite you into a question that takes years to answer: how do we learn to trust ourselves? After decades of teaching and pastoring, I would never tell a teenager to “just trust your gut.” Impulse is loud. Ego is persuasive. But over time, something changes.

We begin to notice there is a Self we can trust and a self we must outgrow. The capital S Self listens for the Lord. The smaller self wants approval. It wants to be right. As we clarify the “compass points” of our faith, God starts arranging our head. He orders what we know. Knowledge turns into wisdom. And wisdom matters because it is driven by love.

Trusting our true selves takes humility, curiosity and an ability to discern between intuition and impulse. A steady intuition… a still small voice that says this is what you are called to do. In that stillness, trust grows, and God leads us from impulse into discernment, from ego into peace.