However, there are seasons when things are really restful on the ouside...while a lot of things are just being shifted, changed, planted, and rearranged under the surface. And those things are great to write about too.
The purpose of this blog is really just to encourage the church body. I find it super important to know about what other people think and feel and go through in their walks - we need each other, be in tune with the body, be vulnerable with each other. I hope you find that here in my blog.
Lately, God has really just been reiterating a few things in my spirit. Those things have to do with my identity in Him.
The number one thing is this: I am His daughter.
I read the book "Supernatural Ways of Royalty" by Kris Vallotton starting at about a year ago (March 2010), and finished it around August 2010 (yes, it took me a whole five months to read that book. It's so filled and jam packed with life-changing stuff. When I was half way through, I even turned around and read the entire beginning just to let it sink in again!) I highly recommend this book to everyone - no matter where you are at on your spiritual journey. This book is really fantastic about instilling in each one of us what it means to be a son or daughter of God. He explains that royal sons/daughters have access to what the king has, who is their father. In the same way, we who are actually true Sons and Daughters of God (it's not just metaphorical - it's reality) are desired by the King to come before Him and receive all that He has for us.
But, this all happens through loving relationship with Him. Truly knowing in one's entire being what it means to be a daughter of the Father requires knowing the Father first.
A perfect example of this came up in my AP Literature and Composition class today, a group of students were giving their presentation on Biographical Literary Criticism, which basically is: "You got to find out the history and life of the author before you plunge into reading one of their literary works. Otherwise, it is impossible to fully understand their work."
A line in their notes struck me. It was simply: "Know the Creator." (I capitalized "Creator" for my effect).
It is true: Identity can't come unless there is intimacy, and we can't who we are as His magnificent creation unless we know our Magnificent Creator. Knowing God Himself, and Him knowing us, is the journey, the reason, the whole point of life. The more I understand who God is as my Father, the more I step into my royal identity as a daughter.
Each and every one of us was created for our Creator - who is our loving Father, Friend, the Lover of our souls, and so much more. But in everything that He is, He is Love. So the way I know I am a daughter is if I love like my Father has loved me. I become who God made me to be when I live (think, eat, sleep, walk, talk, and breathe) inside the context of a loving relationship with God: which is me receiving love - constantly - and me pouring out my heart to Him constantly. It's not work, not religion, it's just hanging out with Him.
He can't tell me He loves me enough because His words are living words. I can't hear that He loves me enough because they are like daily bread. I find that it is okay that God tells me the same things over again. I need to always hear that He loves me. There is something about hearing it from the Father Himself - not from a pastor, not from a friend, not from having in instinctively memorized because the Bible says so. There is something about hearing it straight from the mouth of our Daddy Himself. When He says, "You are my son, you are my daughter, and I love you. You are mine and I am yours; let me be with you, let me live life with you, child," you're eternally wrecked.
Because everyone on the planet was made for supernatural love, when we love people with God's love - they begin to be the person that they were actually made to be. We are for love and love is for us. In my life I am just seeing the fun of going out and loving people. Everyone... EVERYONE responds to love. It's what we all need, every moment of every day - the love of Daddy God, who IS LOVE.
"When it's all been said, when it's all been done
When the race is done, it all comes down to Love." - Misty Edwards
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