It’s day 20 of the series 31 Days of Lessons Learned from My 20’s. If you want to read all the posts in this series, you can find every post listed here. If you want to have all the posts delivered to your email inbox, subscribe here.

Hey sweet readers out there! This is day 20 of the 31 Days series, and I haven’t forgotten about you! My best friend (since 3rd grade!!!) came into town with her family this weekend. I’ve been enjoying ever second that they’re here and haven’t been able to write and post. I’m a day-by-day girl! I will be going back and filling in, so please check back!

And for this Sunday morning, remember this: 

This is a Pinterest find, and I thought it was perfect for what I’ve been sharing with you this week and really the past few weeks. I struggle with this everyday – even now. 

Today let’s ask God for courage. Courage to be who we really are in Jesus. 

And who are we? 

• We are a new creation. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
• We are God’s workmanship. (Ephesians 2:10)
• We are daughters of God. (Galatians 3:26-27)
• We are free. (Galatians 2:4)
• We are blessed with every spiritual blessing. (Ephesians 1:3)
• We are righteous, holy, redeemed. (1 Corinthians 1:30)

In this amazing book I read recently, Why Can’t We Just Get Along? by Shelley Hendrix, she said,

“When you know who you are, you’ll know what to do.”

So often we make decisions not based on who we know we are in Jesus, but based on the lies we believe about ourselves. However, it takes courage, lots of courage, to be who you really are in Christ. Living this way will require sacrifice and even persecution. We’ll have to make hard choices. And it will sometimes be scary.

So today that’s my prayer – to have the courage to be who I really am. That’s my prayer for you too. 

In what way do you need courage to be who you really are?

Me? I need courage to not be ashamed of what I  know God has called me to do in regards to ministry and work opportunities even if they look “weird” to other people.

Want to see some fun pictures from our weekend? Visit me on Instagram!!