You Are More Than A Role

We all live out many roles. Wife, mom, daughter, friend, pastor, employee, entrepreneur, sister, and so on and so on. The Word of God tells us that none of those are who we are. We are defined by our Father in Heaven. We are first children of God. Daughters of the most high God.

Anxiety, stress, comparison, depression all come when we function solely in our roles and not in our identity. We strive to keep up. Get enough rest, keep up on the house, start that new project, finish a project, work towards that promotion, work but don’t work too much, spend enough time with our kids, our disciples, our husbands, our extended families, our friends, God and ourselves! I’m exhausted thinking of all the things I need to try to keep up on based on the roles I have. When we live out of a place of needing to fulfill our roles and not live out of our identities and calling we become exhausted, confused, depressed, and we loose our joy. God loves what we do for Him but He doesn’t love us because of what we do for Him. He loves us simply because we are. He needs to be our source. Not our kids, not our jobs, not our husbands, not our family or friends. We can NO LONGER live in that place of “keeping up.” In that place lives exhaustion. You know what happens in exhaustion? Lies. Doubt. Comparison. Room for the enemy to come in and mess us up.

My vision for this blog is that together we embark on a beautiful, deep, transformative journey in discovering who we are as daughters so that we can live out our callings as wives, moms, daughters, friends, pastors, leaders, employees, entrepreneurs, and sisters in the fullness of who we were created to be and advance the Kingdom and exalt God in everything we do. So that as we discover who we are, we become SECURE, CONFIDENT, JOYFUL, FULL OF GRACE, PATIENT, and so much more and we kick the enemy to the curb. We stand, as sisters, on the battle lines together, lifting one another up, cheering one another on, contending for one another, loving one another, serving one another, without competition or comparison because we know who we are. WE ARE DAUGHTERS OF GOD.

So welcome, daughter of God.