What defines you?
Circumstances?
Personality characteristics?
Monetary wealth or lack thereof?
Looks?
Climbing the social ladder?
Family?
Your social status?
Your ability to be liked and well regarded?
Your ability to display your strengths while hiding/minimizing your weaknesses?
Your ability – PERIOD?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, because really at different points in my life, I think I have defined myself by all of these things. By my abilities. By my inabilities. By how I thought others perceived me.
Right now I am at a point in my life where God is growing me to be defined by Him and Him alone. Wholly, completely, fully, without boundaries, limits, or care. This is hard. This is testing me. I will never “arrive”. Despite the painful process of growing, it’s better than the subtle, stagnant approach of getting stuck in a certain life pattern that doesn’t challenge one to be better, to be MORE. God makes it impossible for me to become stagnant. He always challenges me to give more than I think I can, be more than I think I can be, do more than I think I can do, all the while resting in HIS strength, not my own.
