Hey there! This is blog #3!
Once again I begin with the phrase "I have been thinking a lot lately..." And the cool thing about thinking is that it works (most of the time). But it sure doesn't NEARLY suffice for talking with my Daddy. So God's been talking to me ...about me, what it means to be who I am, and to find myself in Him.
I just realized something: open the Bible and almost anywhere someone is talking about their identity in God. It's just a hunch but I think God's trying to tell us all something... we are special to Him. And not just "we" as a cooperate thing. But we as a individuals. He delights in the little things. He delights in who we are, who he made us. He sees what we don't see at first. Cool thing we can get His eyes to see.
He's been telling me every day, "Lauren... BE YOU! I don't want anyone else. I just want you." I think of the Billy Joel song, "Don't go changing to try and please me... you never let me down before... ooooooo..." haha :) But really... God told me this,
"Open wide
I'm on your side
Drink in all I have for you today
Why have you been
Trying so hard
To make me love you
When I already do?
Just open wide
I'm on your side
Drink in all I have for you today..."
The biggest part of learning how to be me - the person I am and the personality I have - is looking straight into Jesus' liquid love eyes and seeing myself. Using Jake Hamilton lyrics..."I wanna see what you can see in the mirror of your eyes."
Jealousy can't stick around when we know God's love for us. We can't get jealous when we know who we are. Jealousy is a form of poverty. It's that "pauper mindset" that my Daddy gave the best to the other one, or there won't be enough for me. Those are lies; there is always enough. It's just a matter, now, of choosing to live like that. It's not a mind over matter thing. It's about fallin' so deeply in love with Jesus. When we know who Jesus is, He'll tell us and empower us to be who we are. Only He knows who we really are. We get to discover ourselves inside His heart.
Hope this was encouraging! Love, Lauren
Lauren~ Thank you for this post. I totally agree with what you said. It's true. God made us to be who we are because that's what He wanted. If He wanted us all to be alike - He would have created that. But He created us all as unique individuals for a reason.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to stop trying to be someone else. That is like a slap in God' face. We might as well just tell Him we don't like what He created!
Oh, and BTW... I love the name of your blog! :)