Know Who You Are and Be Yourself

It's been awhile since I last posted. I wonder what that's all about. Actually I'm aware that I'm working out some things and I needed to do that in my mind and not on here. I'm still a work in progress.

Anyway today I'm talking to a small contingent of high school age kids who are taking part in the Pro Life/Pro Choice class at our church. I'm telling my story. I want to talk to them about lies. You know the ones, the lies they hear from society and from each other, lies perpetuated through the media and rampant in their school friends. I want to uncover the lies that steal your identity and make you into someone you never intended to be, someone with secrets and reasons to lie yourself. My hope is I catch them before they've fallen into this trap but even if they're already caught in the web I want to give them hope for freedom. I believe it all comes down to this: Know who you are and be yourself. It's a small sentence packed with power. So how do you go about knowing who you are? That's the question. You listen to the truth and negate the lies. When you hear someone speak over you, you are responsible for asking "who's telling me this?" You can either receive it or you reject it. It's either a lie or the truth - good or evil. If you know who you are, you will recognize the lies and you will know the truth. For me that meant I've had to redefine my truths through the years. I did that through the revelation of knowing the love of the Father and knowing how much he personally loves me. In him and him alone I am complete. No other person can do that for me. No amount of searching for that person will fulfill that desire for wholeness. And believe me, I tried.

So, anyway, that's what's going on here. I'm a little freaked out about this one since I'll be talking to some of Max's friends and it's a small setting. He's given me his blessing and that certainly helps. It also helps to know who I am.