Emilie McCormack

It's literally a trap.

And maybe, sweet friend, you're feeling that trap of like, it's hard to make decisions.

It's hard to see clear.

It's hard to show up in a room free when you're thinking about other people.

And I would just say, for me, I have to just confess and

And I'm just going to be real honest.

Even coming here, I told my husband and two friends, I was like, will you just pray that I will kill any desire to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be well thought of, to be remembered, to be... Because that's my flesh, my flesh, your flesh, the listener, whoever asked that.

We want to be thought well of and loved and liked.

And those aren't bad desires.

But when we live out of that...

It is truly like chains.

It is like chains because I am thinking so much about myself and about what you think of me.

I cannot hear the Lord's gentle whisper of like, God, what do you want me to know?

And what do you want them to know?

and so i had to confess that hey can you pray for me because i just need to say it out loud and shed light as we know just shed light on it and it immediately takes the sting out of that which i love that she already did that that was you confessing on this question of like i am struggling with people pleasing and that might be until you see jesus face to face you are continually going to be confessing when you walk in rooms when you go to your family when you walk in a class

Hey, I'm feeling like I want them to really like me.

And I feel this desire to strive to be a certain way.

But I guarantee who God has made you to be showing up, just hearing his small whisper voice and loving people well.

There will be freedom there.

Freedom is waiting.