I can’t understand why some people find deconstruction to be a bad or risky thing. Guess what; the Truth can withstand some doubt and scrutiny. I personally think that when we stop testing our beliefs that we stop growing.

Check this: Jesus constantly went around telling 1/
People, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near” (or at hand, as he would say sometimes). The word repent in the Greek is the word Metanoia. Metanoia doesn’t mean “go feel ashamed” or “turn from your wicked ways” or some of the other things that man made religion & legalism 2/
Has tried to make it mean. Metanoia means to change your mind. Jesus is ultimately saying “Change the way you think. Heaven is closer than you think.” Now I could go off on a whole tangent about heaven.... and I will one day, so get excited..... but Jesus is ultimately saying 3/
Something really profound here. So profound that the enemy took that word repent and man made religion stole it and used it to beat people up.

If we’re doing this thing called life correctly, we will not believe all the same things in a year from now. We will constantly be 4/
Growing and changing our minds when we discover that we are wrong. For example, I repented (changed my mind) when God showed me the habits of self hatred that had worked their way into my life. The lie was that I wasn’t worthy of love. God revealed to me that I was wrong & 5/
That we are precious and valuable to our Creator. When confronted with this lie I chose truth. I may wrestle with that truth on occasion but I know in my heart it’s true.

This is not the type of repentance that most of us were conditioned to think of. For most, that word 6/
Conjures up judgement and harsh rebuke, manipulative altar calls during church services and roadside “evangelists” shouting in a megaphone. I would propose to you that legalism co-opted the concept of repentance and warped the meaning.

The Bible also mentions a concept 7/
Called renewing the mind. We read scriptures also that reveals a little more. The Bible says to think on things which are lovely, things which are true and of sound report. I believe this is a critical aspect of repentance, and renewing the mind.

Sometimes when we realize we 8/
Were believing a lie, it’s not as easy as simply agreeing with the truth. Sometimes the lies are deeply engrained in us.

For example one lie I’m trying to replace with the truth is the lie that I should weigh a certain amount to be beautiful. That’s my own struggle. But one 9/
Day I won’t struggle with this lie anymore because it will sound so silly one day. And how do we get there? We meditate on that which is true & lovely & of sound report.

When a thought pops into my head (like yesterday) that tells me that a certain number on a scale actually10/
Matters, i can fasten my mind on that which is true. The truth is that weight is a made up concept that has zero value. I know that in my head now but the media & “beauty culture” is all around us screaming lies at us. It’s hard to stay fixed on the truth sometimes when lies 11/
Are being shouted all around us & when we were raised believing those lies.... Lies like that God can’t be in the presence of sin, or that God is offended by our pain or our mistakes.

I said all of that to say this: being wrong isn’t so bad. Deconstruction is really a 12/
Season of repentance. Deconstruction is about saying “These are the things I believe, and now I’m going to test all of them to see if they hold up.” & the Truth holds up. Be encouraged.

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