…yeah, it’s ridiculously tempting to think:
“I am what I accomplish. I am what I weigh. I am what I achieve. I am what I do.”
But shake off that lie:
Your activity for Christ does not give you your identity.
You are not what your hands do.
Your intimacy with Christ is what gives you your identity.
You are what your heart is.
And your heart is held in His no matter what fails today,
your heart is loved by Him no matter what any numbers say today,
your heart is strengthened in His no matter how overwhelming things look today.
Identity literally means “the same” — that regardless of changing circumstances, the core of you is unchangeable, stable, is the same.
When your identity is in Christ, your identity is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Criticism can’t change it. Failing can’t shake it. Lists can’t determine it. People cannot define it.
When your identity is in the Rock — your identity is Rock Solid.
As long as (Abba) God is for you, it doesn’t matter what mountain rises ahead of you.
You aren’t your yesterday, you aren’t your messes, you aren’t your lists.
You are brave enough for today because He is.
You are strong enough for what’s coming because He is.
And you are enough for all that is because He. always. is.
#Abba #FirstThingsFirst #HeIsEnough #TheWayOfAbundance #1000Gifts
Ann Voskamp
