Prov 22:1 “A good name is to be
chosen rather than great riches. Loving favor rather than silver and
gold.”
Someone very special to me recently challenged me with this: to acknowledge that God can AND DOES change our names. That our name is not what people have called us, or what we call ourselves, but what He has actually named us. So he asked us to think about what we used to be called. And he asked us to thank God for changing our names. And then he asked us what our new name is…
Thank you, Father, for being able to
see me when I couldn’t see myself. And not just for being able to
see me, but for wanting to look at me. And not just for wanting to
look at me, but for helping me to want to look at myself. Because of
you, I have learned to acknowledge the beauty that is within me.
Thank you for revealing me to myself in such a way that I can
actually stand in awe of my own beauty. Because I am worth looking
at. I am something to see. I am a daughter of a King. I am a
daughter of the Creator of the Universe. A daughter of the Most High
God. And not only am I the daughter of a King, but I am a Queen. I
am royalty. I am beauty and elegance. I am wisdom and power. I am
kindness and gentleness. I am grace and mercy. The things that are
inside of me have always been there. You put them there while I was
still in my mother’s womb. I just didn’t see them. I didn’t know
what was there. I didn’t know who I was. I overlooked…myself. I
used to be called “Dirt.” Now I am called, “Diamond.”
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