Walking with a limp...

All my life I've believed every word someone has said about me. Every small incident of picking, every joke, every rude comment I believed in some shape or form. Most of the time I would just brush those off and pretend it didn't bother me. I also believed every nice comment and every compliment I recieved. You might say that the first one is worse, but in my eyes, the second part has and haunts me to this day. I recently gave my testimony at a Young Life banquet, afterwards a lot of the  people in attendance and leaders there were talking about how awesome my testimony was and complimenting me and telling me I did a great job, pretty normal right? During that whole time every compliment I got was just building me up and setting a standard for myself that is impossible to reach. Within the next week I was tempted really heavily to return to my old ways. I looked at the standard I had of my self and crumbled. I layed in my bed for hours just feeling like I was worthless and I was a horrible Christian. After the temptation was gone the feelings persisted. I talked to a friend of mine and he blew my mind with some knowledge. The fact is if our lives were metaphorically demonstrated, before we met Christ we were dragging around a boulder of baggage behind us and it has caused us to limp. When we accepted Christ, He cut off the rope connecting us to the baggage. Yet alot of us are still limping. I was letting my old problems drag me down. I think the reason that God brings these things to our attention is because he doesn't want us to be weighed down by those problems anymore.