Identity.
Questions.
Who am I?
What are the parts of me that I claim as myself?
And what is the crap that the world has placed on me?
What do I believe about myself that is masquerading behind something completely false?
Where are the lies I believe?
Something has been exposed. The lies of the enemy have been revealed in all of their ugly existance. My eyes have been opened to the truth. Too often we allow the enemy to speak lies into our life; we give him permission to whisper fallacies into places where they have no right to be: our minds, our hearts, our spirits. Instead of calling out those lies, we embrace them with self-depreciation and a false humility. I’m not needed, not wanted, she is more gifted, he has such potential, I’m invisible, I’m not important.
False.
I call out those lies in the name of Jesus. Reveal yourself in all of your puny insignificance so that I can cast you out in the name of my Savior who gives me my worth. Jesus, I’m sorry for clinging to those lies, encouraging those lies, defining myself by what I have to say and what they have to say instead of what YOU have to say. Those lies shall have no place to fester in this heart of mine, only the truth reigns. The lies no longer hold me back. I was locked in a box of who I thought I was and who I thought I could be. It’s like that box just lost all of it’s hinges and the walls fell outward all around me.
Now I’m truley free to discover who I am. It’s like a treasure hunt but within myself, because everything about me has been in existance since before there was time, my days where set out for me before I was yet thought of. I am truley fearfully and wonderfully made. Can I just say I’m amaze by me?? Or rather, God amazes me by ME! Because God made me exactly who I am, He created me with secret doors and hidden panels for me to discover at the right time. He is leaving out the bread crumbs, loving my exhuberant search for everything new and exciting. I’m searching for who I am in His definitions, and His are freaking AWESOME!
He says I am:
CHOSEN. “But you are a CHOSEN race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own posession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9
A NEW CREATION. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is A NEW `CREATION. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17
HIS CHILD. “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become CHILDREN of God.” John 1:12
SET FREE. “But now that you have been SET FREE from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.” Romans 6:22
POWERFUL. “`For God gave us not a spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7
GIVEN AUTHORITY. “Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.” Titus 2:15
And this is just the beginning of who I am and who He has made me to be. In this, I am not defined by anything that the world says about me. No fear about what others will say about me has a part in my decisions. They have no part of who I am. And right now, who I am has DREADLOCKS! I don’t need to be a certain type to wear a certain hairstyle, in fact, I don’t need to look like anything. In this discovery of who I am, He has freed me to do something I have always wanted to do, without fear of what others say about me. Because my beauty does not come from my blonde hair: long, short, dreaded or not. My beauty comes from my God who made me and made me in His image. I am SO beautiful…. BECAUSE I LOOK LIKE GOD!
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.” Psalm 139:13-15
