Don’t Beat Yourself Up

get over yourself. We're all just humans. We're all broken. We're all struggling with to some degree uh unh wholesome impulses. But the fact that we were given free will and that we can control ourselves and we can choose to do God's will. God does not command us for not. God doesn't frivolously give uh unattainable edicts. If God gives us a commandment, it means that we have the power to rise to the occasion. And when God commands us, do not go straying after your heart and your eyes, pushing away the negative impulse. It sounds negative because you're not doing something, but it's actually a positive. It's a positive. You are actively not giving in to the impulse. So that resistance is the fulfillment of a commandment. You are doing the king's bidding at that moment. And what is there more to life than that? You're doing the king's bidding. Celebrate. Be happy. Be happy. Be grateful. Don't be ashamed. Don't Don't be full of self-hatred, self-loathing. That only happens from the arrogance of the person who thinks that he should be free already from these types of impulses, but rather celebrate it that you were just given the opportunity to do a mitzvah. So every time you experience temptation, instead of beating yourself up over it, I mean obviously If you give into it, that's a a whole other discussion. God forbid, don't give into it. But I'm saying if you have the impulse and you resist and you don't give into it, so celebrate that as an opportunity to do God's commandment, come closer to God, make yourself useful to God. You know, what could be better than that? There's nothing better than that.