I'm going to start out by "going deep" in my very first blog. On Saturday, we got together with the other parents from our Bradley birthing class. We had a great time seeing all of the babies and their current antics. One thing I realize,though, was my tendancy to compare Elijah with the other babies. You see, Elijah's not crawling yet. He absolutely hates being on his tummy. Josh and I hadn't thought anything of it, considering he's only eight months old. When we got to the party, though, we saw that all the other babies- except for one that is a month younger than him- were crawling all over the place. Wow...I found myself begining to wonder if I had done something wrong. Had I not forced tummy time enough? Had I forced it too much? I began to think of my baby as "lacking".
This has me thinking about how we define ourselves. We tend to look at what we do as who we are. I find my identity now wrapped up in this bundle of joy that I care for each day and the long list of things to accomplish. If I don't get them done, I beat myself up.
Yet, God's Word says that we are His. That's what we need to be defined by. As the song says, "Not because of who I am, but because of what You've done. Not because of what we've done, but because of who You are." My identity is found in Christ and isn't changed by anything I can or can't do.
May Elijah's identity be found in that, too...
