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God is calling you to step into a higher level of living. He’s inviting you into a greater purpose for your life. Wow, that’s exciting, isn’t it? Doesn’t it feel good to know the God of the Universe has chosen you?
Oh, but wait … maybe you don’t know that yet. Spoiler alert … he has. God has chosen you. Here is his invitation to join him in a purpose filled life! You’re alive today because HE WANTED YOU TO BE. Seriously, that is the only logical reason you were able to wake up. God’s miraculous works are at work within you and he doesn’t plan on wasting it.
Once you come to the understanding that you truly are here for a purpose (and that purpose is greater than working a miserable job so that you can buy and collect things that will all eventually ruin) then you have a choice to make … what kind of person will you be? If you’re here for more than just earning a paycheck, if you’re here for more than buying more clothes and getting a new car, if you’re here for more than climbing the ladder and affording a bigger house, then you realize it’s not about WHAT YOU WILL DO, but it’s all about WHO YOU WILL BE.
Who will you be as a wife? Who will you be as a mom? Who will you be as the daughter of aging parents? Who will you be as the friend of someone who is struggling? Who will you be as the girl who sees an injustice? WHO WILL YOU BE?
David once stood at a crossroads, trying to decide who he would be. He had already gone from the little shepherd boy who defeated the giant Goliath, and had become the King of Judah. But now, he was about to be crowned as the King of all of Israel. His territory was massively expanding. His purpose was growing bigger than he had ever imagined. God had appointed David as his King, and David knew it. He knew he was chosen. He knew he was stepping into this job for a purpose. Now he was asking himself what kind of person would he be.
Now that the house was growing into the largest palace, now that his power would be over all of Israel, now that he was all the way at the top of the ladder, who he would decide to be would continually be challenged and under attack. So before he took that throne, he wrote Psalm 101, his vow of integrity.
Verse 2-4, “I will pay attention to the way of integrity. I will live with a heart of integrity in my house. I will not let anything worthless guide me. I hate the practice of transgression; it will not cling to me. A devious heart will be far from me; I will not be involved with evil.”
Did you know Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr wrote an 80 page disposition on this exact scripture? He made it his guide for leading. It was his guide for the next, higher level of living. As he stepped into a greater purpose for his life, he made a vow of integrity.
Now, how about our vow of integrity? Remember, you’re in a battle against the forces of evil who want to take your life, but if they can’t take your life, they will settle for shrinking your life and making you play little.
Girl, GOD DID NOT CREATE YOU TO PLAY LITTLE! Stop backing down because the things you face will be hard. God made his girls to do hard things! You have chain breaking, sea parting, mountain moving, dead raising power inside of you. Why in the world would you play little? Oh yeah … one reason … you’ve been tricked. Tricked into believing you’re nobody and you can do nothing.
But that’s not the truth. You are God’s chosen girl. Chosen to live bigger. Chosen to fulfill a purpose. Chosen to partner with God and do his work! Just like David was chosen, so are you. Now, who will you be?