College women! I cannot believe you've already begun your freshman year. I am so thankful for you; whenever I think of you, I pray. I hope you're all settling in and overcoming homesickness (don't worry, it will pass). Remember, with Christ at your center, you are always home because HE is always with you.
I am slowly making my way through an amazing book called The Supernatural Ways of Royalty (if you read my blog last month, you already know this) and the quote below really struck me this morning:
"Water baptism is the prophetic act that initiates a covenant relationship with God. According to Romans chapter six, when we go underwater in baptism, it is a prophetic declaration that we are being buried with Christ in death. When we come up out of the water, we are demonstrating that our life is now found in Christ who raised us from the dead (see Romans 6:3-11). "It is no longer I who live by Christ who lives in me" (Gal. 2:20)."
Whether or not you've experienced water baptism, the point is that you've accepted Christ as your Savior, as the purpose of your life; you died to yourself and were raised as His precious daughter, love of His life. Remember that - you are the daughter of YAHWEH, that's no small thing! That means you are ROYALTY. Woo Hoo! Haven't you always wanted to be a princess (I know I have)? Guess what...You Are! And you are going to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven because God promised this to His people a long, long time ago and last I checked, He is faithful.
I know it's challenging to really believe this, we are all so used to earning things, we aren't used to having grace and blessings fall on us like rain. But He wants to cover us in grace, He wants to us to soak in His love and blessings. He wants us to live like royalty. So how do we do this? Especially in college; small fish, big ponds.
Here is where you start: remember that your life is found in Christ. I have said this to many of you before, and I will say it again because you're probably realizing this at school: the world is full of people who haven't realized that Christ created them for relationship with Him. The world is full of people wandering around searching for themselves, not realizing that Christ is what they're looking for. You are not one of those people. You searched and found the LORD. How blessed are you! You don't need to look any further for what defines you, you know. It stirs in your soul and flushes through your blood. Who are you? You are the precious daughter of Christ, the LORD delights in you.
College is like a mini-world within the world and evil is prowling. With so many people searching for "themselves", many are bound to search in the wrong places and evil is waiting. Be cautious and be encouraging; build each other up in faith and present the gospel to one another and to your friends at school. Don't be fooled, the drinking, the drugs, the sex, the cheating, the partying are all traps. Poppers (people who do not realize they are royal) believe these things will give them what they're looking for - purpose, value - but WE know that's not true. They need Jesus and pray they find Him, but remember that YOU already have Him, don't go looking for anything else. No other water can satisfy you like the life-giving water that springs from the eternal well of our LORD. Live like the princess you are, see yourself the way He sees you.
Because I miss you and our campaigners, let me ask you a couple questions for old times sake. Please call/Skype each other to talk about these questions this week. And, of course, talk to your old YL leaders if you want :)
- God sees you as a princess, do you see yourself that way?
- What does it mean to live as a princess?
- Have you noticed that many of your peers are searching for "themselves"?
- Where are they searching?
- What darkness have you seen?
- Have you been tempted? What tempts you? Why do you think it does?
- How do you combat this?
- How did Jesus combat temptation? Find the scripture...check Luke.
Now pray.
Have a blessed week! I pray your conversations are fruitful and revealing and I pray you continue to thirst for the Lord (Ps. 63).
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