By: Angelie Farañal
All the recent blogs about identity have been an eye-opener. Hope you read it all before you begin
reading mine.
Just like you, I knew God. We knew Him because we were brought to church on Sundays and assumed images of Him were all over. At school or home, God’s name was known. As a child, I thought I was not accepted if I didn’t believe in the God the majority believed in. I would not be identified as good. I do not deserve eternal life. I will not be blessed. Very young in mind, I only see God as a lucky charm. When things went well, I was blessed. If things don’t, God must’ve been angry
with me. Relate?
But God gave me all these setbacks. Stirrings. Whirlpools – things that are contradicting unto me. I
am not living what I was supposed to plan for my whole life.
‘I am not blessed. I am not favored. I am in bad luck. My lucky charm is no longer effective. God is no longer there’, I thought.
So, I delved into interventions I thought would help me bring that ‘luck’ back or to shift my ‘luck’ to
somebody, so I could regain my identity of ‘being blessed.’
After so much, I gave up. Even while looking for solutions, poor me, I had no luck. So, I gave up looking for luck, and I gave in to seeking God. Seeking God in the truest sense, not in a childish way
but in a childlike way – kuliton jud si Lord hangtod tubagon.
By seeking Him through reading the Bible, I realized that I am indeed His child. I am because John 1:12 says, ‘But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God.’
There is no such thing as luck. When we are in God, we are His children, and all His children are
blessed, loved, and saved. Dili man happy pirminti kay naa man gyuy mga problema nga muabot
pero pag naa ka sa Ginoo, dili ka mahimong problemado.
I realized I sought God just for blessing. The reason why I identified myself as if I didn’t have what I
wanted or needed is because I am afraid of not being able to keep up with the world. I found that it’s
hard to live in a world with so much stigma: when people are ashamed of themselves, when they are
not confronted with struggles, not accepted by people for not being able to cope with the standards,
not having what people had, and not being able to achieve what the world is trying to pursue. The idea that ‘When things went well, I was blessed. If things don’t, God must’ve been angry with me’, was never true and will never be true. Truth is not everyone who is provided is blessed by the Lord, and just because you had all the good of things and people around you does not mean all of this came from the Father.
But I assure you, you don’t have to worry about luck when you are in the Lord. We are more than lucky. Luck should no longer be our rhema. We might not be provided at the time we need, but God always provides us at the time He says. Blessed we are, and nothing less we will ever be when we are in Him.
Life is harder when you identify yourself as lucky, provided, or blessed because, undeniably, you would try to cope up to the rhythm: risking something important for something you thought was more necessary. Risking just for this is not right. You are not supposed to chase the clout. Your lifestyle does not need to cope with the majority, not even your beliefs. Your identity must not be based on the ideals of anybody, not even on what you choose to be.
Identity today has been a clout-chasing conspiracy. A disease, a gaslighted synagogue proclaimed
over and over. When you are doing something because you were identified as ‘this’ by people, including yourself, pause.
Remind yourself you are not what they say you are or what you say to yourself. No psychologist, no podcast, no doctor, no exercise, no book could give you healing when that disease was not addressed in the spirit because that disease, misfit identity, is an implication in the spirit which only the Holy Spirit could address.
Identify yourself as a child of God by seeking Him and believing in Him daily. How? Declare it right now, ‘I am a child of God. I am blessed and highly favored. I will commit to living my life fully to Jesus who through His life I have life.’
So yep, Youth to the Nations is one of the many who could help. Feel free to message Youth to the
Nations when you are struggling with your identity and life in total. You are not alone, and you must
not be alone facing all the struggles you have. You might not be able to admit it right away, but I swear, no man could solve his own problems on his own. You need God and you need company. No man is an island, and God and Youth to the Nations are here to listen and to help you. Let’s seek God
together! Message us right away!
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