Day 16: You Belong
- Joni
- Jul 16
- 2 min read
I never felt like I truly
BELONGED.
My feet were planted on the ground,
yet it often felt
like I was standing on foreign soil.
Maybe it was because
our family lived
in so many different places.
Or maybe...
GOD was teaching me
something much deeper.
Perhaps HE never intended
this world to satisfy
my longing to BELONG,
because HE was always
drawing me
to BELONG to HIM.
I love the words
of Dr. Seuss:
"Why are you trying to fit in when you were born to stand out?"
The moment
I BELIEVED in JESUS,
everything changed.
GOD
set me apart.
And HE does the very same
for everyone
who BELIEVES in HIS SON.
Something happens
when JESUS
takes up residence in your heart.
You no longer fit where you once fit.
You beginto think differently.
Love differently.
Live differently.
Sometimes,
you hardly recognize yourself.
Not because you've become someone else.
But because
you are finally becoming the person
GOD created you to be.
ALL HIS.
As I look back over my life,
I realize
GOD wasn't withholding a place for me
to BELONG.
HE was protecting me
from BELIEVING this world was my home.
HE knows me
far better than I know myself.
And HIS plans
have always been better than mine.
CHRISTMAS reminds us why.
JESUS left HIS HOME
so we could find ours.
The KING OF HEAVEN
was born in a borrowed stable,
laid in a borrowed manger,
because this world was never
HIS HOME either.
HE came so that one day
we could be at HOME with HIM.
That is the
MIRACLE OF CHRISTMAS!
IMMANUEL,
GOD WITH US.
So that one day,
we will be
with GOD forever.
"For this world is not our permanent home;
we are looking forward to our home yet to come"(Hebrews 13:14).
Our REAL HOME is already being prepared.
JESUS
has a place at HIS TABLE
with your name on it.
A place where you will
fit perfectly.
Far beyond anything
you could ever imagine.
So yes...
the desire to BELONG
is completely normal.
GOD
placed that longing inside each of us.
But no person,
no place,
and no accomplishment
can fully satisfy it.
Only JESUS can.
Today,
I know
I BELONG to GOD.
And living IN CHRIST
is exactly where I fit.
PEACE
fills my heart.
JOY
fills my soul.
How about you?
Why spend your life
trying so hard to fit in
when GOD created you to stand out?
Standing out
may not earn the applause of this world.
But the applause of this world
has never opened the gates of heaven.
ONLY JESUS.
So during this
CHRISTMAS IN JULY,
remember this:
THE BABY
born in Bethlehem
came so you would never
have to wonder
where you BELONG.
Because before
you ever chose HIM,
HE CHOSE
to come for you.
And today,
HE still whispers
the words your heart
has always longed
to hear...
"YOU BELONG TO ME"
(listen to the song below)
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