Not Just a Leader…

Surprise!!! As some of you have surely already heard from my family, I was raised up to be Squad Leader for K-Squad! For all of you back at home reading this and wondering what this means, basically I am on the leadership team that is in charge of shepherding our whole squad. Before this role, I was a team leader for my group of 6 women and now I have the privilege of loving and leading all 26 of our fun bunch with two of my favorite people. While I am so thankful for this opportunity some of you may not know that right before entering the race the Lord had been stripping me of titles to show me that my identity is solely in my Heavenly Father and not the position I have.

All throughout high school and college I had the opportunity to be a leader in many areas of my life. I was homecoming queen, student council president, captain of the volleyball team in both high school and college, president of my sorority, and held many other positions of leadership throughout my days. I don’t say all of this to brag, but rather to say that the Lord has given me the gift of being a natural leader and instead of using my gifts within the church I was exhausting them in all other worldly areas of my life. I made small areas of my life into idols that ensnared me from the plans the Lord had for me life. I like to think that I led in those positions with grace and love, but I know I didn’t always get it right. 

The past few years the Lord has been showing me that my position of leadership is not the only value that I have in my life. It has taken the journey of traveling all across the world to solidify that I have no other identity than a daughter of my Father in heaven. After a rollercoaster of college stepping in and out of positions of leadership that were revoked from me, and I seasoned out of, I know now that the Lord is the ultimate authority and throne of my heart. No sorority sister, teammate, sports coach, acquaintance, family member, or myself has the authority to put me into a role that will be more rewarding or fulfilling than being a child of the King. 

So, for any of you out there struggling with finding your place or feeling valued where you are, cling to this truth—

“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.”” John 1:12-13

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5

You guys!!! You aren’t just a teacher, entrepreneur, sister, mother, grandfather, sorority member, college student, or _____fill in the blank…. You are a PROPHET TO THE NATIONS that is BORN OF GOD! Let’s start stepping into the freedom that comes with just being a child of God. What do you need to let go or remove from your life that will allow you to take off the name-tag you’re currently wearing that doesn’t say “Child of a King”?

After I took off the name-tags the world had given me and replaced it with “Child of a King”, that is when the Lord invited me back into this position. The position that for so long defined me, leader, has now been rewritten as a talent of mine that the Lord has the ability to steward. There is no longer a pressure to perform, but rather grace to love others to the best of my ability, and leave the rest to my Father to handle. Thanks God for your endless mercy and grace.

XOXOX, 

Child of a King