The House You're Building

                                   When you think of who you are, what first comes to mind?  We’ve all been at parties making small talk and often, the first thing people say is “what do you do?”  It’s easy to express your value, especially at an acquaintance level, which focusing on the outward.  It’s awkward to share who you are inside.  Now I’m not advocating we all go out and share our truth with everyone we met.  Be wise and know that privilege is earned by those who over time have earned your trust.  But honestly, I think most people don’t share who they are because they don’t know who they are.  The human race endlessly chases things on the outside to try to define who they are on the inside.     The Bible in 1 Peter 2:9-10 describes who we are in a world searching for identity.     But you a...

A Personal and Powerful God who Sees Me He has a plan for you that is good… For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the  Lord , “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) He dries your tears… He has saved me from death,      my eyes from tears,      my feet from stumbling. Psalm 116:8 (NLT) He thinks of you often… Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count. Psalm 40:5  (NASV) He made you…intimately… For you created my inmost being;      you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  Psalm 139:14 (NIV) You are never alone…   I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back ...