I believe that God designed us to be awesome. He has instilled within each of us a spirit that is striving toward fulfillment and enlightenment. We were created to have a bright future full of hope, positive opportunity, and good (Jeremiah 29:11). We were destined to be great and to exhibit this greatness in all that we do. We are meant to serve God through the wonderful things that we put forth in our lives (Isaiah 14:26-27). We are meant to live according to our highest potential and to seize every moment to show love. Our lives are meant to find ways to reflect the image by which we were made: God. Our spirit is continually trying to activate the beauty that is within us. If you've ever asked a child what aspirations they have in life, they will most always pick something that they consider great. We were born with an instinct to pursue excellence and greatness. All of us desire to be important, feel worthy and needed, leave a positive legacy, and win. Our spirits naturally disdain the negative and impair impatience. We were made with affirming attitudes and positive personalities. Each one of us is unique, different in a way that is special. We were born with laughter in our hearts and joy in our smiles. Our presence has the potential to be peaceful. We are more powerful then we may ever know.
God is intending for us to unveil our truest selves – our original selves that reflect the best of what He created our spirits to be. He desires nothing more than for us to revert back to that original being that His designed us to be. But somewhere along the continuum of life, we somehow have taken the path that has led us astray from the origins of our true spiritual selves. Our flesh, in many ways, has taken control of our destiny and thrown us off course of the where we should be as wonderful, beautiful spiritual beings. It would seem that we have spun out of control and moved so far away from who God meant us to be. Our original nature is one of power; our flesh has made us impotent. Our original spirit is one of delight and joy, our flesh, however, has made us mean, unhappy and depressed. We were made for kindness, love and patience, not with a vile and jealous spirit that seeks to destroy. We are, in our flesh, traveling the road of ungratefulness, instead of taking the path that leads to peace.
We must set out to reclaim the purpose that God has uniquely placed within us all. We must strengthen our spirits to defeat our flesh. We must catch up to the "Original Me" that was created for unconditional love and respect. We must rediscover the spirit that seeks to improve itself and the world around it. We must activate our God-given spirit that empowers us to do great things. Our Creator is the only one with the blueprint of our original design and His Word is the source that tells us how we can rebuild our spirits to become who we were purposed to be.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You so much for designing us to be great. Thank You for showing us the beauty that You have created within our spirits that is the true reflection of You. Help us to rediscover who we were meant to be and how we can have conquest over our flesh and anything that attacks us. Please continue to show us how we can turn our trials into to trails that lead us to You. Lord, we know that we can do all things through You and know that without You nothing shall be possible. Please allow me to find the Original Me that began life with promise. Help me to know that I am Your child and only You can save me. I need You Lord more than ever right now and ask for Your guidance, wisdom, power to secure my future. I ask this in Your Holy and precious Name. Amen.
Derrick S. Slack
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