It’s Okay, Just Be You

           There are times that being “who we are” is exhausting. When we look around and see people, there is this small voice inside our head that keeps whispering to ourselves—wanting to try something new as what everybody else is doing. We want to buy the latest gadgets, to fit in wearing the new fashion trends; to use social media that go mainstreams, gossip about the intriguing news may it be a showbiz or a non-showbiz talk, and the like. But these are all the worldly things that most people go after in their everyday living. God, on the other hand, wants His followers to go for the things this world go against—the godly and right things; to live and go after His commands instead that is written in His Word. This is what God wants us to do, not because we are His possessions but mainly because He wants each of His son and daughter to experience freedom, love and a life without compromise.

            I write this specifically for you to know what God thinks about you. Yes, you who are reading this. I want to share to you the truth that we should know about who we are in Christ. These four points of understanding will aid you to value yourself more than you value it now, to see yourself not based on the perspectives of the people around you but to see the way God sees you.

         I personally appreciate Pastor Steven Furtick for being able to preached this particular topic because I truly believe that whatever knowledge we acquire about ourselves is the key contributor of our manifestations toward outward things, am I not right? I guess, it is your turn now to identify the real you for God’s sake.

• I am anointed to accomplish my assignment.

God is going to give you the stuff to accomplish that assignment just like David so you better get close to Him and receive His fresh assignment. In 1 Samuel 16:7, God emphasize to Samuel not to consider appearances or heights for He does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but our Lord looks at the heart. Sometimes God wants us to show us things that are out of order just like this one. No matter what people think and say about you, it doesn’t matter. What we fundamentally need is the Spirit of God in us that will ultimately assist us to finish the race God has for each of us.

• Just because I am not visible doesn't mean that I am not valuable.

When David was chosen, he was set apart by God. There are days it’s as if no one is appreciating all the efforts that we are exhorting. But it’s often the people that are left out that are actually the ones that God has set apart for a special purpose. The way you treat ‘you’ carries a weight. You know, invisibility has never been an indication of unimportance. You are not forgotten, you are just hidden by God. Don’t we all hide stuffs that we really care about? Make some sense, man.

Paul has counted your significance affirming it in 1 Corinthians 12. He specified details that when God knows where you are, nobody else has to notice it all. Nothing could change the fact that you are still valuable and important. Don’t ever waste your time and energy trying to get people’s attention. When God puts you on a shelf and you are unseen by others, it’s because He is saving you for something that is so significant. He hid you to protect you and saved you. Considering the way it looks doesn’t always mean the way it is. Some of the stuffs that God will use to prepare, develop and equip you are those unseen places. Look deeper because it’s the things that no one sees that produce the results that everybody wants. Sink into your mind that when God picks you, He empties the horn (those who are prepared, those who have opinion) all at once.

• I don’t need a better assignment to experience a greater anointing.

The anointing of God is hopefully increasing so that you can do it more effectively. But higher possibility is while God wants to empower us to do something, we tend to escape from it,right? Just like David who tended the sheep before being able to kill Goliath with a sling, we too need to be taught something by God that will make us fit to wear the crown. Saul said to David in 1 Samuel 17:37, “Go, and the Lord be with you.” The field that you are in right now makes you fit for the fight (As for me, I know civil engineering is my battleground. I have enough weapons to fight the subjects because I have faith that in the end, they’ll become the firearm that will make me stronger).

But there will be times the Word of God for us is to just keep on doing what we do (no stepping up). When that happens in you I hope you will have more power for persistence in your current situation. You better rely on the truth because when you keep doing what you do, then you become who God has always known that you really are.

Other times He will command us to do the same old stuff but in this case, with brand new passion. Go and make a difference with what you have. Keep doing what you do but don’t do it like you have always done it, do it with greater sense of awareness than ever before this year. Keep doing what He gave you to do. If God doesn’t change the situation, He will increase your strength to meet the demands. Nevertheless, His anointing sets us free.

• I have nothing to prove and only one to please.

Are you aware that you are one of one? Meaning, even if you go through same battle with some people, it is still regarded as two different people experiencing two different things because you respond uniquely, on your own ways. And by the way, you are not fighting battles to prove something to God and to people. You are fighting to establish what God has already proven to be true, and that is, He is with us, for us and in us. God is speaking to you at this moment, saying “It’s okay to be like that my child, just be you and I’ll do the rest in you.”

It is indeed a new beginning from unlikely places. It is a new beginning anytime you decide to receive it. New perspective. New priority.