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"I need to find myself"

  I feel today's world is filled with an identity crisis. No one knows who they are and "find yourself" has become today's biggest motto and lifestyle. In an attempt to "find ourselves" we seem to throw ourself into the world. This girl or guy can make me feel this way, drinking and drugs distract me from this, my job is my life, and so on and so on. It's like we have to validate who we are as people through all these things in order to feel complete in a sense. How about we begin to find our identity in Christ instead of the world.
  Identity:(n) the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
     So who are you?
  I'll start. I am a 19 year old cosmetology student living in LA. I'm your host with the most and the short girl that dyed and cut all her hair off. 
     But I am also so much more than that. 
  I am a daughter of Christ who was called to LA to be a light to the darkest places. I am a missionary to my industry, work place, and city. 
  Proverbs 19:21 "You can make many plans, but the Lord's purpose will prevail."
      I had plans to move to LA to pursue acting, but Christ had a bigger purpose for me.
  Purpose:(n) the reason for which something is done or created for which something exists.
  I am where I'm at for a purpose. I am a daughter of the King and that is who I am in Christ. 
  Genesis 1:27 "So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
   You are made in the image, the likeness, of our Savior. You are loved by someone who was innocent yet was brutally beaten and killed for YOU, loved by someone powerful enough to beat death and the grave. You are gifted to reach the lost, you are so much more special than any guy or girl can make you feel, you are given the gifts you have for much more than what you are using them for.
  YOU are a child of God. Stop trying to "find yourself" in this world and find yourself in Christ. All the things of this world are only for a moment, they complete you only for a moment, but Christ is eternal. 
  Mark 8:35 "If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it."
  Lose yourself and your life to Christ and that is when you will "find yourself". 
  




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