What if a child labeled herself according to her past experience?
“I’m a roller/creeper. I’m a hollerer roller/creeper. I sort of go backwards and when I get stuck under the furniture I holler and someone comes and picks me up and gives me a ride back to the center of the room. Works for me. My unique perspective allows me to be an expert on dust bunnies and potential choking hazards society leaves lying about (thoughtless of the needs of minorities like me.)
Yes, I know it’s hazardous to my health, but I am compelled to put everything in my mouth, you know. It’s in my DNA. Why fight it?
I tried walking. Several times. It was a humiliating experience. Not my gift. I’ll stick to what I’m good at, thank you. Besides, my peers here in the nursery approve.”
At what age do we cease to look to our Father for our true identity? How old are we when we cease to hear the you-can-do-it encouragements of the One who knows our potential is vastly greater than what we have so far realized? When did we start to allow our peers in the nursery to set the bar for what is possible? How many ways have we justified stifling the urge inside that tells us that there must be more than this?
To live is to grow and to change. The past does not define us. Our Creator defines us -and what He sees is beyond our greatest imaginations.
Rise up.
Walk.
Charis: Subject to Change 
Praise God! The past no longer defines us! We can experience God’s plans for us and enjoy the present without the drag of the past.
It is a fresh new start every day.
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God is good.
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Oh, I really like this. It speaks to what we all do – limit ourselves to our own idea of what we are to do instead of God’s great plan and equipping for us in that plan. Wonderfully written.
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Oh, to see ourselves as God sees us…
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Such a great post! What a great way to look at things! Blessings, Natalie 🙂
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Thanks, Natalie. I like Phillips’ translation of 1 John 3 : Consider the incredible love that the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called “children of God”—and that is not just what we are called, but what we are. Our heredity on the Godward side is no mere figure of speech—which explains why the world will no more recognise us than it recognised Christ.
Oh, dear children of mine (forgive the affection of an old man!), have you realised it? Here and now we are God’s children. We don’t know what we shall become in the future. We only know that, if reality were to break through, we should reflect his likeness, for we should see him as he really is!
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