Belonging

For the majority of my life...I believed that I didn't fit in anywhere...that I just didn't belong.

Even though, I have been greatly loved in my life...by my parents, and others that God brought into our path. I made friends easily each time we moved. I felt uninhibited crossing cultural borders. But somewhere along the way...the evil one whispered a lie to me...."that I didn't belong." I'm not sure when I began to believe it, but at some point in my teenage years I agreed with the father of lies, and entered into womanhood believing and living with the insecurity that no matter where I went or what I did...I didn't really fit, I wasn't welcome, and I didn't belong.

Oh Precious Sisters.....How that one little lie has hindered me over the years!

It kept me from freedom. It kept me from walking in confidence to be the woman God sees in me. It kept me from serving to my fullest. It kept me from joy.

Jesus says...."You belong to me. You are my daughter. You are my princess. You are mine."

Your identity rests in the hands of your Saviour, the One who died to make you His own.

1 Corinthians 6:17
But he (or she) who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. (italics mine.)

Do you get the significance of what that means?

Sister...if you have joined your heart to Christ...then not only do you belong to Him but you are part of Him, and are one spirit with Him.

Believe me...with that as your inheritance....You Belong!

I will leave you with this....a prayer close to my heart these days....

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:14-19