When Seasons Change and We ve Again Surpassed September

Beingness information technology'south Valentine's Day, I expected to run into more Facebook statuses displaying the unofficial renaming of Feb fourteen: Happy Single Awareness Day!

I merely saw one then far. And information technology didn't end with an exclamation indicate. I actually sensed a sarcastic disappointment behind the words.

Perhaps most of my Facebook connections are now either married or in a relationship?

Or maybe people don't intendance to denote their singleness to the world?

Either mode, this day has me thinking almost something.

And it's not chocolate hearts, dinner for two, or my relationship status.

But rather, identity...


Before I move on, I'll have this time to be honest with you lot. My own journey in singleness has had it'southward times of disappointments, tears, and struggles. I've made some choices that invited hurt into my life. I take made some choices that hurt others. It's been a bumpy ride at times, but I have learned a lot through some of the most challenging times. Give thanks you, God, for grace and restoration!

While every step along the way has been a part of the learning, these concluding ii years something extremely meaning has been happening...

I'thou learning near identity.

True identity... I'one thousand learning to live from my true identity equally a daughter of God.

This identity...this role...will never change...no thing the flavor of life I detect myself in. Just as God is steadfast and unchanging, so can be my embracing my identity as a daughter of God.

When we find our core identity in annihilation other than existence a child of God and seasons of life change, we will move into a new flavor and will struggle because we won't know who we are anymore.

For case - If my sole identity is, "I am unmarried" and I enter into a relationship and get married...I am no longer single. The things that defined my singleness are no longer reality. Now I am married. I am a wife. And I don't know what that means or looks similar because I'm not single anymore. If my core identity was in my relational condition, I am non going to know who I am or how to "be" or what to "do" in this new identify.

This isn't only in our relationship status. It applies to all realms of life and whatsoever transitions. From junior high to high school. High schoolhouse to college. College to whatever yous desire to call this time after college. Job transitions. You name it.

I was thinking about this post before today. It was written equally I transitioned jobs a couple years agone. I wavered because I didn't know who I was. I wasn't rooted in the identity God had given me.

Simply when our sole identity is rooted in beingness a son or daughter of God...in Christ...living our lives believing who God says we truly are...nosotros can exist steadfast no matter the season of life.
No matter our relationship status.
No matter what career changes come our fashion.
No matter what is going around us.

Nosotros can know who we truly are.
And live from that place to influence this world for generations to come.
We have a purpose beyond the titles and roles the earth gives us.

So whether you are unmarried, married, divorced, in a human relationship, in your teens, in your 90s, living in this urban center, living on the other side of the earth...who are yous? Do you know that Jesus has made the style for you to accept a restored relationship with Male parent God? That yous were born to exist a powerful and gratis son or daughter of God? Do you comprehend information technology? Has that revelation inverse yous from the inside out?

Because information technology will when you invite God to:
talk to yous about information technology...
reveal it to y'all...
guide you into encounters with Him
teach you to activate the truth in your life...

YOU were created with purpose, a world changing identity, and with such luminescence...

Happy Valentines Solar day!

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