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Identity
A short thread:
A short thread:
We live in a world that takes every opportunity it can to try and fulfill our identity. Through relationships, success, verbal affirmation, and other things. We grow up learning we have to “find ourselves”, with little to no other guidance on what that means.
The problem is that a misplaced identity is misplaced worth. We’ll live below who we are because we don’t understand our true value. To know who we are, we have to know the one who made us. We have to know why He made us.
I am a child of God. Such a simple statement, yet a statement more powerful than any other. I am God’s child. I am called to serve Him and Him alone. I am called to testify to His light and make disciples of the nations.
I cannot fathom why God would choose me, choose us—such lowly sinners. But for the rest of my life, I want to choose Him.
It’s so freeing to know that all of my flaws, my quirks, my gifts, were crafted by the same hand that made the stars.
I am God’s temple and am called to such a higher purpose than I have been living. DON’T LIVE BELOW WHO YOU ARE. And it hit me that I was living below who I am. I am God’s child. God’s temple.
Prayer: God, help me to find my identity in You alone. Only in You will I find my purpose, my contentment, my joy. Only in You will I truly understand who I am. In Jesus name, Amen.
““I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.” “O Sovereign Lord,” I said, “I can’t speak for you! I’m too young!” -
The Lord replied, “Don’t say, ‘I’m too young,’ for you must go wherever I send you and say whatever I tell you. And don’t be afraid of the people, for I will be with you and will protect you. I, the Lord, have spoken!””
Jeremiah 1:5-8 NLT
Jeremiah 1:5-8 NLT
“He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. -
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
John 1:10-13 NKJV
John 1:10-13 NKJV
“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
I Corinthians 3:16 NKJV
I Corinthians 3:16 NKJV
“He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.”
John 12:25-26 NKJV
John 12:25-26 NKJV
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 14:6 NJKV
John 14:6 NJKV
