Lately I've been struggling with a different kind of identity theft. This is a "spiritual identity theft." Instead of someone pretending to be you the knowledge of who you really are seems to be stolen from you. I've had my spiritual identity stolen from me & that spiritual theft can be just as debilitating as the virtual theft...maybe even more so.
Let me explain a little more of what this identity theft has been for me. I have been struggling to feel & understand my worth as a soul & to know my direction in life. The lies that are being sold to me are that I don't make a difference in this world, that people don't care about me or my life & that the choices I make don't matter. If you don't struggle with these kind of feelings then perhaps this post isn't for you, but I know I need to write this for myself & hopefully I can prove myself along the way & help someone else on my path to reclaiming my spiritual identity.
As I sat in my church service today the thought that I was given is I need to rewrite my thought process in order to stop believing these lies. Here are the truths I need to remember...God LOVES me!!! I AM his daughter. I have been blessed to love and be loved by many in my life. I have been given a loving & supportive husband who adores me. I have been rewarded with the calling of motherhood to two loving and adoring boys. I was blessed to be born into a loving family with parents who taught & prepared me to love the Lord & his children. I have an amazing extended family who have supported me in my struggles & celebrated my joys with me.
The Lord has showered me with good, kind, loving friends who love & support me as though they were family. I have had the opportunity to bless my friends & family in a way that only I can fulfill. They in turn have graced my life in only the ways that they can.
I have been given the desire to make good choices in my life that have brought me joy & triumph. Every choice I make large or small matters to the people whose lives I touch. There are wonderful people who rely on me & my strength in God. There are people whose lives I have touched that I will never know about & some whose lives I've touched & now don't remember those experiences...but they remember them.
My life matters A LOT!!! It matters to God, it matters to my family, and it matters to my friends what choices I make. Those who love me hope & pray for my success. God desires success for me & longs to bless me with the things I need in my life. These are the truths I will hold on to when I struggle to deflect the lies that Satan is bombarding me with. He will not have power over me any longer! He cannot hold my identity captive any longer. I know who I am. I matter and I make a difference!!! I am not any different from you. Well all make a difference & we all matter to those people in our lives who love us even if we don't know who those people are. In the end God loves us & that makes us pretty important!
