Hello!! I’ve been focused on preparing for the marriage conference my husband and I are speaking at next week and wasn’t even going to write a blog post today because of that. This morning however, I really felt the Lord wanted me to share. Before I do, I wanted to invite you to the conference if you live in the area. We would love to see you there and it’s going to be a lot of fun, and good for our marriages! It’s SO vital to sow into the most important relationship in our life after our relationship with God. Doing so has helped Rob and I to remain strong through the good and bad times. Marriage isn’t always easy, but God’s grace strengthens us to have a strong and beautiful marriage. For more information, click on the link under the pic below.
Last week I shared a word the Lord gave me about our identity in Christ. You can read it HERE if you missed it. When we know who we are in Christ, we’ll have a God-Confidence that causes us to soar in life. God confidence is 100% more powerful than self-confidence, because God-confidence is based on God’s unchangeable promise of who He created us to be, not our own faltering abilities or strengths. Did you know that God has deposited in each one of us great potential? He sees the gold inside us and draws it out as we walk our beautiful journey with Him. Learning to enjoy this journey, will help us to see God at work in our lives each day, and find purpose and joy.
The world talks about having greater self-confidence, but confidence in “self” will only get us so far. That’s because it’s based on self, and well, as imperfect people, if we base our confidence in self; when we make a mistake, go through a tough time, or things suddenly change around us, our confidence gets shaken. That can be scary, but like I stated last week, that’s a good thing, because only weak and faulty things can be shaken. We don’t want to cling to those things that maybe got us by in the past. We want to take hold of God and what He is doing in and through our lives. God is doing a beautiful work in you right now. Stop and think of that for a moment. Sometimes we rush from one thing to the next, and we don’t see God at work in the every day moments of our life. Let’s take some pauses today and look for God’s fingerprints in our lives. He is there.
I can remember as young girl wondering about myself. Who am I really? What do I believe? What will I stand for? What kind of person am I going to grow up to be? This is a normal part of growing up. My sons were doing a Bible study I bought them on the book of James recently, and I was reading through some of their answers to the questions in the book. I saw them ask the same questions I once asked…who will I be when I grow up? What will I do in situations like these? I was thankful that they have the Truth available to them now; and they are learning who God says they are, and who they are destined to be. It’s the same for you and I as adults. We are ever growing in Christ and must seek and embrace the Truth about who God says we are.
The enemy targets our identity from the moment we are born. He uses people, things and circumstances in life to cause us to question who we are and our self-worth. We see this assault so strong on this up and coming generation, don’t we? They question their identity and purpose in life and the author of confusion has blinded their eyes. It’s heartbreaking. And this is why even more so, we must know who we are in Christ, so we can help this hurting generation of young people. They are desperate for answers and we can point them to the only way, Truth and life. While the enemy may seek to destroy us from the moment we are born, God says He has been with us since our formation in our mother’s womb. We have been fearfully and wonderfully made and ordained for greatness by Him.
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:13-16
Can you go back and read that verse again? Sometimes we may speed through a verse because we’re so familiar with it or we aren’t reading it for ourselves personally. Go back and read those words as God, your Creator, speaking to you personally, because He is…
The truth of those verses may not always resonate with us. In our human imperfections, we struggle at times. We may strive and fail to be great as the world determines greatness, and yet we are already great according to the Creator of Heaven and Earth. No more striving. I pray you absorb this truth today. Yes, even in your imperfections… You are perfectly imperfect…and the only Perfect One is perfecting you day by day, drawing forth that gold He has placed inside you.
I want to encourage you today to be gentle with yourself. Don’t focus on your mistakes or shortcomings, focus on what God says about you and is doing in you even now as you walk with Him day by day, moment by moment. Even our mistakes, God uses to show us who He is, and what He has created us for. Let’s not forget what God has said about wanting us to know who we are in Christ more than we ever have. Let’s not run to the next thing, but let’s allow Him to do what He is doing right here and now inside of us.
You and I are perfectly imperfect and that’s a beautiful thing, because we are adored by the only Perfect One, who is perfecting us day by day so we can reflect Him to a world so desperately in need of Him. Let’s commit to be present today, tomorrow and the days to come as God unfolds His glorious plan for each of our lives.
you definitely heard from God on this!!
Thank you! Love and miss you. ❤