Identity.
It’s a big one.
It’s the truth of who I am in my Father.
He has shown me that being firmly rooted in Him; finding my identity only in Him allows for me to live fully in who He created me to be.
When I left for this journey, I didn’t realize how many lies I believed about who I was.
I believed that because others had called me harsh, I was hard to love.
I believed that because I had an unconventional upbringing that I was strange.
I believed that because I didn’t go to college, I wasn’t smart.
I believed that because I wasn’t tall, or thin, that I wasn’t beautiful.
When I began to seek the Father in a deeper way, He began showing me who I was. Who I really was.
Not who others said I was, but who He said I was.
He began showing me things He had planted in me long ago. Truths that the lies of the world had tried to snuff out.
He showed me how strong I am.
He showed me how worthy I am, because He created me.
He said I am a warrior for His kingdom.
He said I am His daughter.
I asked him, why don’t others always see it?
He replied softly, because you aren’t wearing it. You aren’t showing them who you really are.
So I began wearing it. Walking in the things the Father had called me.
As I did so, as the other things began to fall away.
It doesn’t matter who people think I am, because I know who my Daddy says I am.
I no longer have to please people, because my Daddy says, I am well pleased.
I do not have to live up to a standard set by a broken world, because I am meant for a heavenly kingdom, where there are no standards, just love.
So here is my question:
Who did God create you to be? What did He plant within you, to glorify Himself? Who does He call you, in secret?
Stop listening to the world and go be it. Go be who God says you are. You don’t live to please them; you live to please Him. What the world really needs is more people who have come fully alive in who God made them to be, not another broken person trying to live in something they are not.
Go be it.
Be the change.
Be the difference.
You are special.
You are loved.
You are love.
