Here's what I'm learning. I'm excited about it. I want to share it with you.
I am not my own. I do not belong to any other person. I am not of this world. I belong to the Lord. It is for freedom that Christ has set me free. That includes freedom from myself and who I used to be and who I am. I am no longer a slave to what I once was.
I've been hearing a song around our dorm room a lot lately called Who Am I by Casting Crowns. Listen to the words. Who am I? I am Yours. I have nothing to fear, not from the world, not from myself, because I am Yours. By myself, I'm nothing. I've done nothing to earn anything, but it was given to me. Purely through the love God has for me, I've been given an identity as a follower of Christ. I have the opportunity to serve the living God, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, who was and is and is to come. I'm not bound to the frustration or entitlement or jealousy or bitterness or lack of trust or anything else that comes with being of this world. I belong to something greater, and I'm so freaking excited about that.
I've had to learn this before. I'll probably have to learn it again. But no matter what I go through or what lessons I have to learn, I am still the Lord's. Nothing can change that because nothing can separate me from the love of God. Ps check out Romans 8. I have nothing to fear. "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" - Jeremiah 29:11. Why would I fear anything? I am loved deeply and powerfully by the Creator of the universe. And that is what I will find my identity in.
I am not my own. I do not belong to any other person. I am not of this world. I belong to the Lord. It is for freedom that Christ has set me free. That includes freedom from myself and who I used to be and who I am. I am no longer a slave to what I once was.
I've been hearing a song around our dorm room a lot lately called Who Am I by Casting Crowns. Listen to the words. Who am I? I am Yours. I have nothing to fear, not from the world, not from myself, because I am Yours. By myself, I'm nothing. I've done nothing to earn anything, but it was given to me. Purely through the love God has for me, I've been given an identity as a follower of Christ. I have the opportunity to serve the living God, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, who was and is and is to come. I'm not bound to the frustration or entitlement or jealousy or bitterness or lack of trust or anything else that comes with being of this world. I belong to something greater, and I'm so freaking excited about that.
I've had to learn this before. I'll probably have to learn it again. But no matter what I go through or what lessons I have to learn, I am still the Lord's. Nothing can change that because nothing can separate me from the love of God. Ps check out Romans 8. I have nothing to fear. "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" - Jeremiah 29:11. Why would I fear anything? I am loved deeply and powerfully by the Creator of the universe. And that is what I will find my identity in.
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