My identity through Christ. I have had lots of time this week to reflect and spend time with Jesus. I love the feeling of spending time with my creator, closing my Bible, and being hungry for even more. The Lord has such a fantastic way of doing that. But I have found that the more time that I spend with Him, the more I don't want things to be about me- but about my identity through Him. I want the desires of my heart to be directly from my heavenly father. Faith is a big thing that has seemed to come up in so many of my conversations lately. Questions like "How does your faith play a role in your life?" or "What is your faith?" I think the word "Faith" is one of those "Christianese" words that I learned when I was 5 years old and never dug deep into the true meaning of it. Do you work for faith? Do you receive faith? Do you earn faith??
Faith is not the result of striving, it is the product of surrender.
A few days ago I came across this quote and it just can't seem to leave my mind. Countless times my mindset is to strive. I often think to myself, " Paige strive for this goal and you will become stronger..." which very well may have some truth to it. However, I can no longer base my faith after how far I strive. Faith is not something that is necessarily worked for, yet something that comes when you give away yourself, and let God have you.
Surrendering is something that hardly comes natural, and takes a lot of humility. But if we surrender to the Lord and He is for us, who can be against us?
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17
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