There is no greater security than being secure with who you are

​I heard Steven Furtick recently say, "the greatest thing God will give you faith for is not something to have, but someone he wants you to be."

I've discovered in life; you can get so busy chasing down things in life that you can lose sight of who you are and who you want to be.

You can get ever clearer about what you want to possess in life, while becoming a perfect stranger to yourself.

And it makes me wonder, is it possible to know exactly what I want in life without having a clue as to who I am? Is it possible while I chase to secure those things I want, to lose all security with who I am?

How many people get to retirement with all the money they need to live in the world yet lack any capacity whatsoever to live with themselves? How many retire with the resources to run off to anywhere they want yet they feel like there is nowhere on earth that will get them far enough away from themselves.

How many people get to the end of the life they have crafted feeling like the craft looks nothing like the crafter?

It's never too late to start making the craft in life look more like the crafter.

It's never too late to surround yourself with people who encourage you to become the you that you want to become and not the you that has all that they think you should have.

Because the world isn't about love of wealth as much as it is love for self. You can love your wealth without loving yourself, but you can't love others if you don't love yourself.

Which is why I'm pretty sure God goes tone deaf when we spend our days asking him to grant us what we want without ever asking him to grant us the chance to be who he longs for us to be.

It's never too late to start making the craft in life look more like the crafter.

And it's never too late for the crafter to long to be more like the crafter.