“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…)<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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)<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n