One Voice

This weekend has kind of been a weird mix of emotions weekend. I had this past Friday off, so it was so much fun to get to spend time with Ella we did really fun things, I had the chance to make a birthday cake for one of our best friends, had a great time with friends....and all the while I was just overcome with insecurity. The whole weekend. What is that? I am not normally a person who struggles with insecurity...I mean yes I have my days, what girl doesn't, but normally they are a fleeting thing that I can just walk past & leave it there. This weekend though, I could not shake it. Just everything...you name it from looks, to abilities, to parenting, to friendships, to anything & everything in between I was just riddled with insecurity. It was not fun. For me too when I have these times its not like it just goes away it takes a few days to undo itself, and remember truth & who I really am.

Which in all the Lords fashion, He was there for me, to encourage & shape me. I love that about Him. The chapter I read this morning was called: Christ, our identity. It talked about who we are in Christ & who he says we are. Talked about how Barnabas was an encourager, Timothy faithfully served & learns under an older servant of God, Stephen was a fearless witness. "Even Jacob in Genesis 32:28 understood his identity was no longer that of a deceiver but that of a prince, and from that moment on, his life changed until it matched what God said about him."
I love that line...his life changed UNTIL it MATCHED what God said about him. its on going not a one time thing...its living, its active, always moving & changing.
Even looking at Jesus, "Everyday he encountered people who publicly declared that he couldn't be the Messiah. He managed to ignore all those voices around Him & continue His journey toward the cross without being shaken. He listened to & BELIEVED only one voice-that of his Father. Each time people asked Him who He was, He confessed the identity His Father declared about Him."

This was so good for my heart to read. In these moments of weakness I need to learn to refuse to give in to the voices of my mind & emotions and whatever negative things I try to convince myself that I am. Instead, confessing, believing, and ACTING upon the identity that Jesus gave me in His word, and the calling he has on my life.

So how about you, what voices are you listening to? Who's voice will you believe?