I am a sinner. Plain as day and simple as 2+2.

But through Christ I am redeemed. Time and time again I am showered with love from Christ and he exemplifies the kind of love I deserve day to day. Living life as a young woman is hard, but living it with the faith of knowing I am a daughter of the king is an encouraging realization for myself and others.

To be a daughter of Christ is to be patient and wait for the Lord's timing with every part of life. In life I often find myself trying to rush God's timing and trying to make things happen on my own. I tell myself that I'm sure what I am doing is what God has intended for me because why else would I be doing it? If he has my whole life planned out for me then why I be making a choice that was the wrong one for me? God gives us the power of free will and although he knew us before we knew ourselves, he gives us the ability to make choices on our own. Whether we make the right one or not. When we choose to let go and let God do his work in our lives we will see a change. The decisions we are making will start to glorify the Lord instead of temporarily glorifying ourselves. Earthly things can only satisfy us for this lifetime but not for eternity.

As a daughter of God we are called to be Christ like and to be involved in a Christ-centered relationship with whomever the Lord has chosen for us. I have found myself jumping the gun into a relationship and wind up getting myself hurt. I spend my time so fascinated with the idea of someone that I don't truly fall in love with them as a person. The purpose in a relationship is to find someone who you can grow with emotionally and spiritually and someone who is consistently pushing you towards Christ. Something I have realized is that for me to truly love someone else I must first love myself. I can't expect to find a the perfect God fearing man for me, If I a not being the God fearing woman that he also needs. I am not a perfect woman and I am aware of it. I realize that I have given my heart to boys who have used it and abused it. I have not treated my body as the temple that God intended it to be and I have been a cause for stumble in a man's life. The world is full of so called "double standards" for women, but as a woman of God we must realize that these standards are set to keep us from falling into the hand of the wrong man. We don't want the man falls for us as he stumbles, but the man who holds himself up and looks towards God instead of us. If we want to be treated like the daughter we are, than we must treat ourselves as so.

"Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God-" Corinthians 10:32

I want to be loved like Christ has first loved and I want to radiate off that love. I have been called forth as a daughter of the king to show that a woman does not need a man to satisfy her heart. That I do not the finest clothes and hair to be seen as a beauty to someone. I have been chosen to be a light to woman out there that do not have this same faith to cling to and this same belief in themselves and in the Lord. For this reason and this reason alone, I choose to live out my calling as a daughter of the MOST high king and to glorify him in all I do.