I dare you.

Have you accepted an identity that was not yours?

"I dare you to stop accepting what someone who didn't know their identity, told you" ~Michael Todd

Lately I have been listening to one of Michael Todd's sermons titled "Before the person :: relationship goals (part 1)." The part that stuck out to me the most was when he spoke on identity. He brought up the question, who are you and who have you been trying to be like?

God has given each of us an identity that we don't have to question, that we don't have to wonder if this is it, that we don't have to worry that its not right. If God sent his son to die for us, because we are that important to him o you not think that he would give you the identity that he has planned for your goodness?

But then we decide that that identity isn't good enough for us or that it doesn't fit what we think we need and we look to other people to fill a God sized whole in our lives, or we look to alternatives to problems that God was only meant to solve. God is the creator of everything, that job, that marriage, that boyfriend or girlfriend, that parent. Everything. Period.

So don't you believe that God would place you in places and positions to grow? God is going to use what you are going through right now to grow you to what is coming next. You may not know it until the next one comes but I assure you, you will know. It will click, you will have that "ohhhhh" moment, it will finally make sense.

Your identity, does not have to be like theirs. God created yours to be yours, that's it. He did not want to use just one part of you. He's not that type of God, he doesn't give up on you when you mess us and say, "That was the last straw, they don't get it I'm done." He understands that we will mess up and that we will fall.

You're a King's Kid

You are a child of God

You matter

You are important

You can do it

You have the confidence

You are not what they said you are

You are amazing

You are chosen

You are hand picked

You are set free

You are precious

You are loved

You are rejoiced over

And finally your identity is found within the one who created you. Not in that person, not in that job, not in that relationship, it is found in the one who is utterly in love with you. He is the one who will never leave you, who sticks closer than a brother.

I dare you to look within yourself to find what God has called you to and not the world this week, I promise you it will bring so much joy and love to your life. Let him fill you up.

Peter 1:23

"You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God."

Thank you to Pastor Michael Todd for inspiring me to search deeper to find my identity in Christ and not what people tell me it is.