Who are you? What or who dictates how you live your life? How do you respond to life situations and relationships? Is it the Word of God? The Spirit of God?

….Are you a mother…sister….daughter…wife…..princess?

There was a time in my life where I had no set standard for how I lived. I mean, I had my own set of life rules and morals but I could tweak them to fit any current situation. I had no solid ground for which I based reactions and responses and my identity was unclear. I was not constant. I allowed life situations and people to be the voice of who I was as a woman, a wife, a mother and a friend. Sometimes I was good or bad, mean, sweet, generous, stingy, ugly, pretty, lazy, patient, warm, cold….on and on. Everyone had an opinion of me. The problem was I allowed their opinion to create self-doubt and insecurity in me. My heart and mind would receive what was said and my outward behavior would reflect it. If I was hurt or wounded I would behave in a way that would most suit the situation in providing healing, as temporary as it may have been. I may have overeaten, complained, sulked, been sad, manipulated emotions, retreated, defended, attacked or even prayed. But more often than not, it was a reaction based on emotion and not a healthy response. I did not stop in the midst of feeling what I was feeling and be still and go to God because I was not grounded on who I was in Christ. I was not grounded in Truth. My identity was unclear. So what is truth.

     ………….The truth is God chose me……The truth is I am God’s masterpiece……The truth is I am forgiven…..The truth is the Spirit of God that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me…..The truth is God said I was worth dying for, that nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate me from His love; He said I was precious and that He delights in me. It is God’s grace and favor that fills me with love, not man’s. The truth is He is my provider, my shield, my fortress, my rock, my redeemer, my friend, my creator, my love, my sustainer, and my King.  So who am I today? I am a daughter of the King. I am royalty, a princess. I am a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter and a friend. There is a standard set for a princess of the King. God and God alone gets to say who I am. So out of love for my God I stand on truth, my identity is sealed and it cannot be shaken or altered. So with the strength of the Holy Spirit I make it my aim to allow love to be my highest goal to be a godly mother ….a godly wife…..a godly woman.

But you are a chosen people; a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. 1Peter 2:9 NIV

Kim Spicer
WoC Graduate
Princess of the King