NaPoWriMo prompt: The idea is to write a poem in which two things have a fight. Two very unlikely things, if you can manage it. Or perhaps your two things could be linked somehow – like a rock and a hard place – and be utterly sick of being so joined.
You do not have because you do not ask God. James 4:3
Who are you?
If we were born into a loving, nurturing family, we naturally build a strong sense of identity, validated and encouraged by our parents, and out of that identity flow our talents, strengths and purpose.
Our destiny is encouraged by and flows out of a solid identity.
It flows from a secure, peaceful heart and a strong foundation.
When this does not happen, when we are not nurtured as children, and our needs are not validated and met, we fail to develop a strong sense of our God-given identity and so we try to please others and take on whatever shape we think that others around us demand or expect of us.
In this deficient scenario, when our sense of identity is weak, our destiny tends to become dependent on what others expect us to have or what they expect us to do.
We become a ‘human-doing’, or a ‘human-having’, instead of a human-being.
We rely on our having and doing to become our status, our esteem, the value by which we measure ourselves.
We measure our importance by how many possessions and latest gadgets we have, or measure by what we do for a living and how hard we work, or how ‘successful’ we are.
We become performance oriented, workaholics, or materialistic seekers of wealth and fortune.
If we did not get a secure foundation as children, we are not lost. There is always abundant hope. Our Father God, who designed us for a purpose, will still work in and through us if we let Him.
Ask Him.
He can and will heal our broken hearts, demolish the lies we have believed about ourselves and will transform our identity and our destiny. He will create in us a new heart – a heart of flesh – and dismantle our heart of stone.
We will learn to measure our value and true success by having a secure heart – a strong identity in who we are in Christ Jesus.
We are children of the living God and we belong to Him.
We are loved, protected, provided for and cherished by our heavenly Father.
When we spend time in the presence of Him who created and designed us, we become who we were created to be and we can nurture the gifts and talents He purposed for us since the beginning of time.
We can truly reach and be fulfilled in our God-given, purpose-made identity.
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