Who do you think you are?

So who do you think you are? For most of us it would depend on who was asking the question as to what the answer may be. If it were someone who we knew really well, we may answer with a real answer. If it were someone who we were trying to impress, then we may answer with what we hoped. What if God were asking the question to you His child? Let that sink in for a minute... He knows how He would answer the question, but how would you answer to Him. Who would you say that you are if the One who created you were the One asking the question? He's not asking who do you feel that you are, but who do you think you are? 

Proverbs 23:7 says that as a man thinks in his heart so is he. Pastor Aaron used that in the sermon I watched on the way to the beach Sunday. God has been speaking on that ever since. If the God who loves you more than you can imagine, were to ask you who you thought you were..would would be your reply? Would you answer with what you thought He wanted to hear or would you answer with what you really thought? (Remember He knows the difference...) Would your answer bring a smile to His face or tears to His eyes? 

I've struggled with insecurity most of my teenage/adult life. I lived with the chain of people pleasing wrapped around my ankle until recently. It kept me concerned with what others thought more than what my heart knew. The enemy knows where my weakness is in this area. I've told him more times than I should have in times of just that weaknesses, but after hearing this verse God has been dealing with me in that area. Hands open, God and I have gotten real over the last couple of weeks in this area. I've had to let go what I felt about myself and let Him remind me how He feels about me. Oh that's truth to stand on when the day has not gone your way. Feelings are not truth period. When you go to answer the question who do you think are...make sure you are looking to the one that is going to pick you up and not keep you down. Often times you may not feel like you are strong enough to walk through the struggle, but God says you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. You may not feel beautiful, but God says you are fearfully and wonderfully made. You may not feel like you can be disciplined, but God says a fruit of the Spirit is self control (lean on it). You may not feel confident, but God says be confident in Him that He finishes what He starts and He is still working on you. Are you starting to see how you should think about yourself? The race is not won by the ones who felt they could win it, but by the ones who thought they could. Thinking you can do something will give you the strength to push past the feelings that say you can't. 

When the enemy has thrown darts at me lately, its been with that...feelings. Insecurity, feelings of overwhelming, doubts, fears...feelings. Combating those feelings takes truth taking root. The devil wants you to keep feeling your way through life, but God came to set you free from that. He came for you to walk in truth and know that regardless of feelings...who you are is His. On the days when you just want to feel your way through, think on what He says about you.....and feel that.