In my last blog I talked about who Jesus said He was. The name He often assigned to Himself. In the name The Son of Man, He claimed not only truth but humble truth. A reminder of His humanness and yet all in the same a reminder of His glory and Might. This past week I started thinking about what names I assign myself. Daughter, wife, Stepmom, singer, songwriter, or maybe if I am being totally transparent, worrier, impatient, prideful. All of these things true through my own eyes. But what if the name I assigned to myself was, Daughter of the almighty, Child of the King, Beloved, Worshiper? How would this change not only how I see myself but how I live my life? One of my friends and I were chatting between services a few weeks ago and she said "The Lord reminded me during worship, that we don't need to touch Jesus's garment like the women in the Bible who touched Jesus and was healed, because Jesus is inside us. She had to touch Him because His power had not yet come through the holy spirit to all who believe but we have access to Him all the time!" What a powerful truth and great reminder! We literally walk around with the Lord living in us every day. When we assign negative things to ourselves we are choosing to agree with a lie.
In our neighborhood there are a lot of families with dogs. There aren't many fences and so a lot of people have electric fences. The way it works is that you first set out flags in the yard, marking where the point where the dog cannot pass or it will receive a shock. Once the dog learns not to cross the line, the flags are removed. Eventually you don't even need to turn the collar on because the dog becomes so use to the line and the potential pain that it doesn't try to leave. I thought about this the other day within my own life. Have we becomes so use to the pain and distraction of this world that we don't even try to live in the Power of Christ? Has disappointment, discouragement, and business, created an invisible fence in our lives? It can be easier to stay put.....safer even. But we are not called to live an easy Christian life. We are not called to comfort and safety. We are called to cross the line at any cost. To pick up our cross and follow Christ.
This past Sunday we had guest Rita Springer come share in worship at church. between services she was sharing about a young women who came to one of her worship seminars called Dive. This young lady's name was Michelle. She shared how she hated her name, always had and didn't fully understand why. during the course of the week long conference, the staff began to pour into her, researching the meaning of her name and God's unique calling on her life. By the end of the conference, Michelle found new hope in her relationship with the Father and new joy in her name. Rita went on to share that she kept in touch with this young women for two years until she suddenly dropped off the map. Rita later found out that this women was no longer a women but had had a sex change and was now a man. She changed her name to Robert. My heart broke as she shared this story. Not just because this sweet person had turned away from the hope they had in Christ but because she rejected her name. The name given to her. The enemy had convinced her that she was not who she should be. Not who Jesus said she was. That she was not suppose to be a women of God or even a women. She chose to stop fighting, to stay behind the line and the enemy convinced her a lie was truth. We are His. We are His beloved, His redeemed, His bride. We are cherished, adored, protected. We are blessed and made righteous through Christ. We are sons and daughters of the King. These are just a few of the names given to us in scripture. It's time to walk boldly in the truth of those names. The world needs it now more then ever.
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