Content to Be Me

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." ~Psalm 139:13-16

I am convinced that a woman who struggles with her identity and purpose is a woman who has abdicated control of who she is becoming. Don't forget: God is painting a picture on the canvas of our lives. Our bodies are merely the frame. God intends to paint a beautiful picture-a picture to others of our character and unique expression of Christ's life-and place it in this frame. But he can't create this work of art without our cooperation. It needs to be a lifelong joint project between God and us. If you choose to criticize the frame or resist God's brushstrokes, you will not find contentment. It will elude you. If you focus on God's vision that integrates the picture with the frame, and the development of His message through you, you can say, "I am content to be me."

Will you take the paintbrush in your hand and kneel before your master or try and paint your own strokes?

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"I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorius creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's though, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking." ~George MacDonald

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,which God prepared in advance for us to do." ~Ephesians 2:10