God Makes No Labels

Can you count the number of names you've been called? How about the labels people put on you that you never shook off. What about the stories people told of you, some true some false? It seems that people love to remember our failures and our mistakes the most. They hold onto the version we were at our worst and it seems that our past haunts us. I was in middle school finding out who I was while still wanting to be accepted by others. One day I came home from school and received a phone call. Being 13 at the time I answered any number that popped up on my phone, to my surprise it would be a conversation I'd never forget. I was always a very petite child growing up and I was always insecure about it, but I never thought someone would make a cruel joke about it. The phone call was someone calling about checking myself into a rehab center for girls who are anorexic and need help gaining weight. I didn't realize it was a joke until the moment I heard laughter coming from the phone. I quickly hung up the phone and cried in my room, feeling uglier than ever and more insecure than before. I hated my body. I hated how I looked and sounded, in one moment my entire self esteem was destroyed. I let that one moment create so many other future decisions I would regret. I never told anyone because I was embarrassed. I carried it with me for so long adding other labels people gave me. I let them hold me back from my relationship with God and HIS purpose for me. When God spoke to me about creating my blog I hesitated, for one reason. The labels I carry that others have put onto me. I had to realize I am not who I was in my youth, I am not who they said I was, I am not my past mistakes, and I am not who I was yesterday. I decided to grow, I decided to break the chains and take my freedom back. I am who God says I am and nothing less. Do not let your past define who you are today, do not let the words of the past haunt you another day. God made no mistake when he created you, God designed you for greater things than anyone around you could say. Our idenity was paid from the blood of Jesus, he paid the price for you. It doesn't matter what you've done or the label you carry, you are the son/daughter of the king. You have freedom of judgement, you have a new life waiting. You may have walked away from God and church and feel like you've done too much damage to be made new again but there is no sin that God does not forgive. There is no child he will abandon. Our security comes from God's love and knowing his love. God makes no labels, we are all equally the same, we are all sinners and not one person is more righteous than the other. Walk into the house of God, surround yourself with people who see who you are today and see the calling on your name. God only knows what you been through and God knows your heart.

“YOU DON’T MAKE MISTAKES AND YOU DIDN’T START WITH ME”

-UNSPOKEN

“THEREFORE, IF ANYONE IS IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATION. THE OLD HAS PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD, THE NEW HAS COME.”

-2 CORINTHIANS 5:17

“BUT THE LORD SAID TO SAMUEL, “DO NOT LOOK ON HIS APPEARANCE OR ON THE HEIGHT OF HIS STATURE, BECAUSE I HAVE REJECTED HIM. FOR THE LORD SEES NOT AS MAN SEES: MAN LOOKS ON THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT THE LORD LOOKS ON THE HEART.”

-1 SAMUEL 16:7

A LITTLE WORSHIP NEVER HURT

I PRAY A NEW LIFE FOR YOU. I PRAY THE CHAINS OF YOUR PAST BREAK AND YOU FIND YOUR FREEDOM. GOD NEVER INTENDED YOU TO LIVE IN THE PAST BUT THE FUTURE. YOUR VALIDATION IN JESUS. JESUS SEES NO DIFFERENT FROM THE REST. I PRAY THESE TWO SONGS WILL HELP YOUR HEART AND BRING YOU INTO A PLACE TO FIND HEALING IN CHURCH AND AT HOME. JESUS DEATH GAVE US OUR IDENTITIES NOT THE IDENITIES THE EARTHLY WORLD GIVES US.