This month, Seele Magazine’s Friday Posts were a part of a new series titled ‘Confront Thyself,’ with Proverbs 27:19 as our guide, with this idea, as if you’re looking at your heart and your soul in a mirror- what do you see? Chief Editor, Ally presented 4 issue areas that you may be struggling with that are ungodly and can’t come any further into 2020, unless you want a repeat of 2019.

Last week we looked at our ego, today’s final topic of joy is on the table. We don’t always feel happy and that’s ok. But, joy is a fruit of the Spirit, and it’s something that we should have 24/7 in our lives, that in spite of what we may be going through, we should always have joy.

Human nature in its raw form is all about me, me, me and our social media age doesn’t help with this. We’re hungry for likes, showing off our profiles with duck faced lip photos, or of who we’ve met, or what we’re eating. But, we weren’t created to be egotistical and stuck on ourselves, we were created to uplift others and serve others with the skills/gifts and talents God has given us.

Unforgiveness and bitterness towards another is really like taking cyanide. It doesn’t hurt or affect another person if we imbibe poison ourselves, and eventually, it will eat away at us and in some way kill us- kill our peace, our physical health, or our relationships.

Last week we looked at jealousy, today the topic of fear is on the table. When we let fear hold us back from doing what God has called us to do, we are indeed holding ourselves back from God’s purposes for our lives. Here are a few ways to think about fear.