The Old is gone the New has Come

I have been thinking about my challenge to you last week, in my live, to allow the storms of life to test your holiness instead of your ugliness.

Biblical Power Tool #180 was so powerful to me because it not only allowed me to talk about the ugliness God washes away but it gave me permission, as well as you, to let it go.

Who am I without the Ugly

There is some stuff I have been hanging onto for dear life thinking I need it. I need the pain to survive. Who am I without it? I need the bitterness to bite me. Who am I without it?

I have had ugly seeds planted around in my brain for so long that I cannot picture who I am without them.

Who can I be without the Ugly

The problem with not knowing who I am in Christ, or identifying myself with Jesus rather, is the holy can never surface. The old me will always win out over the new me.

The storm that was meant to change me, blinds me instead. I cannot recognize that Jesus is making me look more like Him. So, I act selfish and testy watching my ugly float away creating more ugly to be removed.

Defined by the Divine

The holy in me is the divine in me. There is so much more to me than the ugly I want to cling too. I put that to the test all the time even today. I have lived through the Lord washing away the ugly that has lead to the holy in me.

I am a new Kathleen who hears Him speak to me, who sees His work around me and who wants what He desires for me. I am defined by the divine more than decrepit.

It is only in this work that I am able to identify with Jesus, because I have lost my worldly identity to the storms.

The winds of change are always blowing. Will we allow the seeds God is planting in us to change us?

Watch a collection of lives on this subject here.