Identity.

"Lord, use me as You will, teach me obedience to follow Your ways and allow me to be a vessel for You."

Who knew, a simple prayer like the above years ago could've turned my life around.
Is it possible to be so overwhelmed with grace? To feel like I have a target on my back for opportunities to be used for God's kingdom's sake? And yet, I constantly go back to the question of, how is it that someone so broken, so scared, so terrified, so small, could be so loved by this God who had created everything, who had loved so much that He sent His Son, for my sake, to die on the Cross? How is it that this great God still loves me when I so often rebel and turn and forget about Him? How is it that this grace is mine to have even when I so often forget about Christ and His obedience to sacrifice?

But only one answer, isn't it? God's amazing, undeserving grace that He had allowed me to have an identity in Christ. To be adopted to His family through the sacrifice of His Son. Through Jesus, I am now able to have true security in my future, knowing that in all things, God is sovereign; heavenly significance, to be called a daughter by the Father; and eternal satisfaction, that only Jesus can give!

Our identity is who we are in Christ.

Hannah

Hope.

"But, is there any hope for this at all?" My doubtful self started. 

"Only when your hope is in Me, in the Cross I was crucified in, and in the power that brought me back to life and defeated death." My Lord answered my doubts. 

Only when you look back at the Cross and see your sins, the death you deserved. And see Christ selflessly sacrificing Himself so that you can be reconciled with God. And look towards the future, the glorious entrance of Christ Himself, the knowledge that you will be with Him forever, in worship and praise. Wouldn't that be what makes everything worth it?

Hannah