Day 8: I Am His Daughter

I found this song about a year ago.  A family friend posted it on my Facebook wall after our families had had dinner together that night.  The chorus of the song proclaims this: "He is my King and my Father; I am His daughter."
Identity is an incredibly important thing.  I believe that our identity in Christ is always growing, and it can be changed.  However, I think something powerful happens when we are able to establish ourselves as a daughter, son, brother, sister, or follower of Christ.  It changes how we look at our relationships with others, as well as our relationship with God.  We are saying, "this is who I am, because God, You are who You are."
I want to go back to the idea of God as Father.  I do believe that He fills both parental roles in my life, but it is cool when I am able to recognize His reflection in the actions of each of my parents.
Middle School was an eventful three years.  In those years, you start to learn about relationships - mostly friendships. What qualities you desire in a friend; how to be a good friend.  You also learn what it feels like when someone is not a good friend.  I can recall a few times where I was experiencing frustrations with friends.  It caused a lot of stress because I desperately wanted to sustain a friendship, but I wanted to get and give love and respect out of the friendship, which wasn't there at the time.  I can remember being upset, and trying to express my frustrations to my dad one morning before school as we were eating breakfast.  As he heard my frustrations, I could see him get visibly upset.  He was upset that I was hurting; upset because I was upset.  Just as my earthly father knows my heart, and hurts with me when I am hurting, so does my heavenly father.  I believe that God's heart really does break when our hearts break. 
Being a daughter is a huge part of my identity.  In that way, people will know my mother and father.  In that way I hope that people will know my Heavenly Father.

I want to share a picture of my family.  They are a huge part of my identity and the shaping of my identity in Christ.  May you and whoever is part of your family - whoever is a mother, or father, or brother or sister to you - and who has helped to shape your identity, be blessed.
~SP