Posts tagged identity
Remember Where Your Value Comes From

A few years back, just a couple of months before my birthday, my grandfather (or Pawpaw as I call him) surprised me by telling me he was going to build me a dining table as a birthday present. I was beyond excited at the news. For quite some time I had wanted to own something my Pawpaw built. He was quite the carpenter and had built several pieces for my mom in the house I grew up in. But I wanted something for myself that I could take with me to all of my future homes now that I was an adult.

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What The World Says About Me vs. What God Says About Me

Social media has changed quite a bit since then. And I’m pretty confident in saying that all of the different social media platforms have made it exceedingly more difficult for us as believers to figure out who we are and where our identity is rooted. It’s not like I’m scrolling through nothing but pictures and videos reminding me of who I am in Christ. Instead, I’m consistently reminded of how I don’t measure up, how I fall short of society’s standard, or how my house, my body, and my life look nothing like “that girl.”

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