StarShine!

Today I was talking to my Canadian friend. We talk about work and somehow it always winds around to the spiritual. This should not surprise me as most of my life is focused on the spiritual...my relationship with Jesus and helping others to live a more victorious life. In talking with my friend, I started making emphatic statements about myself that I have been praying. As I was espousing these things, I realized what I was really saying is that I was declaring who I was.

I have been afraid of shining out for various reasons in various aspects of my life. I don't want to ever be afraid of who I am, because God created me to be who I am. So, if I am ashamed or afraid, what I am really saying is that God's work isn't good enough. When you write it out, it seems completely ridiculous. So, I have been praying in such a way to renounce the old way of thinking, and to embrace all of who I am. The Bible says that we are supposed to be lights in the world, that we are not to hide our lights under a bushel; a city on a hill can not be hid. So, every time I squash who I am, or hold back, I am doing the same thing. That can not be pleasing to God, and at its deepest root is rebellion, as He commands us to shine.

I vow in 2009 to shine as brightly as I can. To allow God's love to permeate and shine out through me in a blazing force. I thank God for who I am. This diamond was created under immense pressure and I am proud of who I am, and who God is perfecting in His love to be. I am His. All of me. I look forward with eagerness to how He will refine me this year. Each trial I face is a test or it is training for the next phase in my life. I am grateful for the chance to be a visible represenation of an invisible God.

So I ask you this fifth day of 2009. Who are you? Who have you been afraid to be? What will you do with the gift of salvation?

With great expectations, I keep my eyes focused on the Mark of my Higher Calling.

Your,

Miss Magnificent who is also StarShine!