dailydatewithgod

We embody our beliefs.  We carry around these ideas and we wear some like a badge of honor.  It sounds funny but think about the kind of attachment you have to your name.  It is part of your identity–literally and figuratively.  When someone gets a hold of your name and your information and uses it for their purpose, it is called identity theft.  It is a frightening process by which we have to explain to some financial or other institution that we did not do what the charges or whatnot say we did even though our name is attached to it.  On top of it we feel threatened that now someone else has been going around pretending to be us.  But is that who we truly are?  Who would be without our name? Who would be without our ideas of how things should be?  Who would we be if we took on a characteristic or behavior that those around us are not used to?  It is not only us that identifies with things outside of ourselves–those around us have come to know us as a way of being.  We become what we espouse.  What if for one whole day we embodied God’s view of us?  In the hebrew scriptures God says to Jeremiah, “I knew you before you were formed in the womb.”  What would it be like to be the being that is known before we took on a name and a shape or our ideas about ourselves?  How might we react to the world around us if we identified only with that sense of who we are?  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to take one of our ideas about ourselves and offer it up to God and ask:  What purpose does this serve in Your eyes?  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen