No titles No boxes

God wants to strip away the titles
"Oooooh but he is the CEO of the company, that's big"
we congratulate ourselves on earth
but God doesn't need titles to convey love
titles do not define who you are

You may be a wife or a mother
a father, a husband
but that is not WHO you are
It is the relationship that matters
not the title

It is the essence of YOU
who is YOU
it is what YOU bring into the relationship
that makes it significant
it is all the specific qualities that make you unique
it is God's perfect design
his perfect blueprint of who he intended you to be

that is YOU

if you are tied to all of your titles
then when you lose them
who are you?
Like untying a balloon
it floats away into the clouds
and leaves you wondering
where your self worth just flew off to

or like a boy scout
with all those badges
all that work to earn each one
and then what if we take that away?
so much invested in outside merit
and God pleads for you to invest in your heart
and in others

to GIVE to RECEIVE
to love thy neighbor as thy SELF

we distract ourselves by doing all these other things
by trying to measure up in the world
and even when we feel the paybacks for all that hard work
are few or far between
we still choose to climb back onto the hamster wheel
and keep on truckin
constantly bombarded
and convinced to buy into
a worldly concept of validation and acceptance

but you can strip away the titles
so that God can show you how he destined for you to live
out of your spirit fully
bound by nothing
unlimited resources for the taking
a gorgeous freedom of a future
in the making!

~C


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