Being vs Doing

Well, I definitely can say it has been a while since I have posted anything on here, summer has come and gone it’s now October and I am finally scratching the itch I have had to blog!

I look back in the time period where I haven’t posted anything and ALOT has happened! And God has done so much! It’s been a Fun, hard, heartbreaking, healing, restoration, season. Yup all those things have happened but they all lead me to one Person, and that is my Jesus.

I don’t think I have ever been so poured out and vulnerable with God before, I am finding I have a carelessness about me when it comes to what others think about me and I have a yearning to only please God, not out of proving anything to Him but out of a place where I have fallen even more so in love with Him, that all I want to do is His will and purpose for my life. BUT there is one thing I had a revelation from that I have seen myself do my whole life. I always try to do what God has called me to do but I was forgetting to be who God has called me to be, it’s like I was trying to help God with the doing part as if he needed my help? Right? Is that not ridiculous?

When I try to Do vs. Be I worry about getting everything done in a day, I worry am I going to learn this fast enough. I worry about who I am supposed to end up with. I worry about my checklist of goals and dreams, and anything else I would need to worry about in order to be great at something, but as of this last little while I decided just to be who God has called me to be, and I know that all the things I have to do will fall into place.

I have wondered so long, "how do I know that I’m being not just doing? I mean after all if I am being who God has called me to be, shouldn’t I be doing what He has called me to do?" it seems so confusing yet it’s so simple! just ask yourself "who am I?" and if you even struggle for a second in who you are or if you realize you need to change who you are, go to the word of God and find what it says about you! And every decision will flow from that place. The bible says I am kind so I get to choose to be kind! The bible says I am to imitate Christ, I get to choose to imitate Him or not! And when I don’t get something done or it doesn’t go according to plan or the timeline I thought it should, it’s ok! It is not a big deal! Because I am not proving anything, God has already proven me and I get to trust His timing. Do you kind of see the difference? If you were to just do, you would beat yourself up for not getting that thing done or that book read and you end up full of anxiety and worry and the devil will just beat you up with it!

So when you look at what you have to do in a day it may be the exact same things weather your being or doing BUT, your position is different, how you see God and how you see yourself is different! Your whole mindset is different and guarded by what the word says about you.

So I challenge you to stop wherever you are in life and evaluate, where do I land when it comes to being vs. doing? Maybe you don’t even know what you’re supposed to do but you can’t truly find it until you find in God’s word who you’re supposed to be. And if you don’t know how to do that ask someone to help you see what Gods word says about you!