Every day we wear several "hats" in our lives. We switch these hats around frequently and maybe even wish we could take some off... But despite all of our hats that we take on and off, double up etc, how often do we remember the crown we wear all the time? The crown that isn't dependent on the current hat. The crown that is only dependent on our forever king. As sons and daughters of the king we get to wear forever crowns. Take pride in your crown and take pride in knowing that God chooses your hats specifically for you too. Go through your day with pride, yet humbly in order to show others God's love for the\m through you. Your crown is your microphone, your light, use it to bring others to the Kingdom!
A thought came to me today as I stumbled upon some inspirational posts. Why are we often so eager to escape our troubling circumstances. We get trapped in the fire and get so focused on getting out that perhaps we miss the most important question of all, what refining needs to be completed in the fire? Just as a welder uses the fire to shape and refine metal, so God uses our circumstances, "fires" to shape and refine us. If he simply swooped in and saved the day, we would lack the knowledge he hopes us to gain, we wouldn't grow in character or wisdom. In the fire we think he abandom us, left us to our own devices, but in reality he is more present in the fire even then in the calm. It's when we feel abandoned that he's calling to us the loudest, beckoning us to just open our ears to listen to his voice. Take the fires in stride, don't immediately reach for the extinguisher. Allow the flames to surround you with the confident knowledge that the one whom the...
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