Where am I going to assuage the pain? I go to sugar. Wait, why is there pain? Oh yeah, am I believing that another person can define me? That lie is one of the big ones in my life. I love how the Lord exposes the hand of the enemy, and when He does this rush of freedom comes like a wild wind and fills my lungs and heart with life. Lord you call me beloved and You are my Beloved. I can't keep myself safe, nor do I believe in the traditions of men, you know the way people look at others without even the benefit of relationship they judge them. The judgements get broadcast and everyone believes the judgement. It seems to be a common practice in the world and especially in the church, because no one wants to do the hard and messy work of relationship. If I am trying to assuage the pain then I must believe that the traditions of men speak a truth. They seek to tell me who I am, because they want to carry me away as spoil, but I refuse to make myself captive by their so-called philosophy and intellectualism~~ following the traditions of man. You call me love and undefiled, I am the choice one of her who bore me. That is what you say about me. So who or what am I trusting? Whose truth do I believe? I only need to look at the fruit of my life to see the source of my beliefs.
The absolute sweetest thing happened around my identity, the Lord revealed the insidious lie of self and how it sought to control people in order for me to protect my identity as I let men define it. In the middle of this truth being exposed and the subsequent healing that the Lord began to do because of the lie believed, the Lord began to speak to me about my true identity. My new identity as a son of God becomes a new platform from which I live my life. The Lord said this new identity requires a new name. At this very juncture in my life, I am writing blogs to capture all that the Lord is doing and I started signing my blogs with my new name almost unbeknownst to me, if that’s even possible. The Lord in His graciousness to me in one day sent multiple people to me to tell me that my new identity required a new name. You know how crazy you feel when you have written something and you sign it with a name that no one in your life knows? The Lord said” nope that was Me!” Yep, you have already figured it out if you are following along with this blog, the new name is Jo Perkins, Jo is that middle name that has been despised and hidden my whole life and the Lord saying “I didn’t hide her nor despise her, I called her my choice one, the apple of my eye, the one I carried in my heart for aeons and aeons, I am dead to the sins that are common to man, the sin of hating what the Lord loves and created. I choose to die to the belief that the traditions of man are truth, they taught me to hate what the Lord loves. They taught me to base my identity what they said about me, and then to hate what I became as a result of believing that lie. They taught me to hate myself. I am Jo Perkins, the beloved of the Lord.
For only in Him the whole fullness of deity lies, the Godhead~~the Trinity giving complete expression of the divine nature. He is truth and in Him are no lies. As I seek all of Him with the whole of my heart I begin to see how to walk from this new identity. For my determined purpose is that I may know Him, that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, percieving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person. Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty.. Amen..Song of Solomon 6:3, Col 2: 8, 9 and Phillipians 3:10...
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