What Are You Chasing After?

I remember being in middle school and feeling so insecure. Not with the clothes I wore, but with how people saw me as a person. One question was going through my head all of the time “Do they like me?” I was so worried about what others thought of me even towards the beginning of high school. It is something that we all struggle with or have struggled with at some point in our life. We have to realize that our identity or security does not come from the people around us but from God. He knew us even before He put us in our mother's womb. I still find it so captivating how the God that made the universe, the mountains, the ocean, and the stars, spent so much time making us, molding us, and sculpting us. From the personalities that we have, our hearts we have, our calling and purpose that He has placed on our life, what we look like, etc. Knowing these things, I can never fully wrap my head around how amazing He is. Let me tell you, we are so blessed to have a Gracious God that took the time to make us and sculpt us into who He has made us to be!

I started writing this blog last night. This morning before I read my Bible, I prayed that whatever I needed to see/ hear, would be put right in front of me. As I opened up my Bible to Galatians, right before my eyes I read Galatians 1:10 (“Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.”)

I find it so astonishing how God puts what we need to hear right before our very eyes. I am in awe of Him and I pray that you would remember that you do not have to chase after other people's approval, but chase after the one who created us.