Who or What defines you?....

"Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

 But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it."

Colossians 1:22-23

I was speaking to a friend of mine late last week and she said something to me which has been repeating in my mind ever since.

We must be defined by God and not by man. Upon thinking about this a great deal and analysing my own habits and thought patterns, I realised that overtime, this truth became less and less clear to me.

Due to this, when I would make mistakes, I would lead myself to a guilty cave which would then result in doubts about how God looks at me, which would then result in the use of an emotional faith as I would pray but doubt His answer at the same time.

I allowed circumstances, even what people said about me to define me. Taking it even further, I allowed what I THOUGHT people would say about me if I truly expressed how I felt/ what I thought about particular things to define me.

I hope I am expressing this understanding properly. Since I read this verse above, I have been having a whole new outlook concerning this. God's love for us, Christ' price on our behalf does not waver.....it's always firm, true, valid, powerful, nothing can deter it.

Once I am fully defined by this, my faith will become refined....unshaken.

Notice he says we must not drift from this truth.....Nothing, no one, no circumstance should cause us to drift from the truth of the word of God.

I mean, read the verse again? How amazing is this truth?! Read it over and over and over again until it sticks. This is what I will be doing.