One of the first blogs I posted was talking about identity and my quest to find myself in Christ. When I posted that blog I thought that I had it all figured out and that Christ was done working in me in that specific part of my life….nope.
This whole trip, it feels like every week God is pulling back layers and revealing new things to me about my identity in Christ and the crap I´ve built on myself- trying to identify myself with what the world sees.
But I´m realizing, I´m not of this world….my mind shouldn´t be on earthly things, they should be on the things of heaven- so I am finding my identity in my Creator and who He created me to be.
This week, what God has revealed to me is that the Church is guilty of putting Christianity in a box and the ways Christians are suppose to look, act whatever- in a box. And if you don´t fit into the box, you´re wrong or crazy or not following God.
God has created us all differently, we worship differently, we evangelize differently, we have different minisitry, different strengths, different passions. There is no formula on how to be intimate with God, no formula on how to be a missionary, no formula on how to love God. And that is really awesome. God created the body of Christ so amazingly, that we all have different passions, strengths, weaknesses but together we are complete and we move and work perfectly together. No part is better then the other but the body as a whole works amazingly together.
God is revealing to me gifts that He has given me (which is really awesome) and He has blessed me with visions that help encourage me and my sisters here. Also Emily suggested to me at the beginning of the trip that I should try prophetic art, and lately that has been my favorite form of worship.
God honors us in the way that He speaks through us, so that the way that He speaks through me is different from Hannah, then Calie, then Margaret etc.
We are all different, unique creatures. The only reason I am here on this earth is to glorify God. I realized that I´ve desired other people´s gifts and desired to be like other people my entire life. But God is revealing my significance in Him and that He desires me to be the person that He created me to be.
God is so awesome and the Creator of the Universe loves loves us…thats so cool.
