Have you ever felt like you are not enough? Or maybe like you are not doing enough? This is not an uncommon reality in our world and culture.

However, your reality with God is that you are not enough and there is nothing you have to do to be enough. So who are you letting define you? The world and its standards or God?

We are not the sum of our past. We might have the collective thoughts that our past disqualifies us from whatever God has meant for us, but this could not be further from the truth. God is using all things for our good (see Romans 8:28).

The bigger question might not be how or who we define ourselves, it might actually be something more present. Who are we fighting and why.?

When we look at 1 Samuel 17 we see an incredible example through David’s response. He turned away from his brother and took action. He didn’t stop to fight his brother. He went to the fight he was called to.

1 Samuel 17:28-30 MSG Eliab, his older brother, heard David fraternizing with the men and lost his temper: “What are you doing here! Why aren’t you minding your own business, tending that scrawny flock of sheep? I know what you’re up to. You’ve come down here to see the sights, hoping for a ringside seat at a bloody battle!” “What is it with you?” replied David. “All I did was ask a question.” Ignoring his brother, he turned to someone else, asked the same question, and got the same answer as before.
You see David’s older brother Eliab had one view of David. He was his scrawny younger brother. He had no business with the soldiers or anywhere near a fight with the Philistines. David could have let his offense get the better of him when Eliab confronted him for fraternizing with the soldiers. Instead he went where he was called. To fight Goliath.

We are all fighters but our attention must be focused on only fighting the battles God has called us to. We will know the fights we are called to when we first fight to spend real time with God. This must be the most important fight of our whole life.

The enemy knows that when we don’t spend time with Him we will not know who we are. The enemy wants us to be distracted, because then God can’t direct our steps.

The fight of your life might be the fight for your schedule. Fight for your schedule so that spending time with God is practical and happening always.

What God says about you.

John 15:15 NIV I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

Acts 1:8 NIV But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Galatians 3:26 NIV So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,

Romans 5:8 NIV But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Let these words define you. Not what you do or what the world says. Let your Father have the final word on who you are.