One Role

It was a lovely afternoon. I was spending time with my grandson. He was two years old at the time. We started looking at pictures of animals on flash cards. I was amazed he knew so many of them. When I showed him a cow, he said "cow." When I showed him a horse, he said "horse". It was like this for me when I discovered my identity. After one of my sessions with Jana, she gave me an assignment. She said, "I want you to take a piece of paper and fold it into eighths. In each space, I want you to write a different role. Underneath each role, describe what that looks like". Before our next session, I worked on this assignment. I folded the paper. As I began working on the next part of the assignment, a light bulb went off. I realized I have one role. ONE. I am a daughter of the King, a follower of Jesus. It was a huge revelation. I am not sure I even knew what identity was before this.

God determines who I am. Whether I am a mother, mother-in-law, friend, wife, etc. I still have one role. When I know who I am, I will choose to live as God wants me to. To discover this was a game-changer for me. I sensed God wanted me to know who I was. It was crystal clear that everyone needed to know their true identity. I asked Jana, "What if someone does not know their true identity?". She responded, "They can choose to be whoever they want to be.". I was saddened to think that anyone would want to be anything other than who they were in Christ. At another appointment, she asked if I had a Rescue Kit. My response was, "Do I need a Rescue Kit?"

I keep a notebook and pens in my car. They are accessible so that I can jot down thoughts. After some time had passed, I had accumulated many different thoughts. I would refer to them frequently because they kept me grounded in my identity. It was then that I realized these could go in my Rescue Kit.

I gathered them in a pile and took them to our next appointment.

I told her, "I think I know what goes in my Rescue Kit.". She was surprised. I showed her all the pieces of paper.

I transferred them into a spiral notebook I got at Walmart for eighteen cents. The notebook has been read so much that it is now tattered. Some of the pages are hanging by a thread

Here are a few thoughts from my Rescue Kit:

Take captive EVERY thought and make it obedient to Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:5 – pause, examine my thoughts. Am I believing lies? Change those thoughts to truth.

When I was being knit together in my mother's womb, God placed his image in me. Psalm 139:13, 14.

My value and worth were settled before I was born. Nothing and no one can change that. God determined this. It is finished.

As a follower of Christ, I am forgiven and cleansed. God went to the cross for all my sins, past, present, and future. My past doesn't define me.

When I forget who I am, when my thoughts tell me lies, I MUST run to my good daddy, the Lord.

He is my rescue!