Healing Co-dependency (4)
Thursday July 28, 2016
Contentment in life doesn’t come from controlling someone so they will meet our needs nor by trying to please someone so they will like us and make us feel secure.
We are living co-dependently when we are looking to others to affirm and maintain our value because they have limits in their ability to understand and provide for our needs. We also have limits when dealing with others and their needs. God’s plan for us to have a secure and satisfying life in relationship begins with us identifying with who God says we are – nothing more and nothing less.
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:10 NLT)
We need to let go of the impossible expectations we put on others. People cannot love us enough or touch us deeply enough to satisfy the deep-rooted longing in our hearts. Only God can truly satisfy those longings. We have our own desires and dreams and we need to let others have theirs. We make our own mistakes and others make theirs. We need to forgive ourselves and others and determine to learn from all these mistakes. 
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. (Ephesians 1:4-5 NLT)
Fullness of life and freedom from co-dependency can only be found in relationship with our Heavenly Father. When we acknowledge that we have value in the sight of God and base our worth and identity on this, rather than on the opinions of others, we will begin to experience peace, freedom, and security.
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