“True happiness cannot be found in ANYTHING unless it is first found in God ……then you can find joy in everything else.” (Judah Smith, Jesus Is…)

My identity is NOT in the “roles” I fulfill – wife, mother, sister, daughter etc…. It is found in WHO I am – “I am My Fathers daughter”. I am finding Him and finding myself in Him!

In 2011 when I was in Israel I felt that I was embarking on a journey to be “Released to be me”. Finding out that I am His and He is mine. My focus was to seek the face of God and not the faces of men or their approval. The latter, I had done for too long.

I love all the things I do in this life but the more I know how much He loves me, I am find that I love Him more and more. The Bible is becoming more about how much He loves me not how much I can love him.

I am not what I do or who I am to others. My value and fulfillment is not found in doing or being something. The question of my value is not found in what I can accomplish or what roles I fulfill. If my value, my identity, is found in those things then as soon as one of those things or relationships changes then my sense of value and fulfillment will go up and down based on those. I am who I am separate from all of those. I am my Fathers daughter!!! (In fact my behavior is not His number one priority, I am His first priority – loving me is His main concern.) (Judah Smith)

Today if I could never again accomplish another thing or speak another word or think another thought, am I now without value? am I any less a person? I am who I am because of who He is and He defines me. My Father loved me before I loved Him and Jesus died for me while I was still sinning. My value was determined BEFORE I could “prove” my value by doing something to earn it.

So what I do and the roles I fulfill do not determine who I am or how valuable I am but become a natural overflow of the real me.

I Have Found by Kim Walker