“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.
Before you were born I set you apart
and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”

I really love this verse. I know that God was talking to Jeremiah but He knew all of us before we were ever formed in our mother's womb. I love that He knew me. I love that He still knows me. And God has set us all apart! I love that He knew if we were all the same...the world would fall apart. He's so smart.

These of course are my own thoughts with the Lord..I'm just sharing them with you. I feel that we all in general have one call/purpose that we share from the Lord. To pursue and burn for Him. To truly know and perceive the wonders of His person. And I feel that we all have an individual..personal call or purpose from the Lord. Our own set apart purpose. What makes us different from others. We have a gift inside that makes us a part of the stone wall we're to be. The gift that makes us fit right where we need to be.

Sometimes I'm not quite sure what it is exactly that makes me set apart other than the fact that I love Jesus with everything inside of me. I get so excited (insert other words that I can't even come up with to describe feelings I have for Him) That I honestly believe I have completely and utterly lost my mind! Yes...I'll admit it..I'm a little crazy. That's how in love I am with Him. But I'm surrounded by other people who love Him just like that too! So how does that set me apart. There has to be something else inside of me. Maybe it's still being pruned? Maybe it is there but has not been discovered or accepted?

My Jesus has really been working with me on not defining myself by the people I am around but by who I am in Him. I must define myself by who He has set me apart to be. Whether other people accept me for who I am or not..He does. Of course He daily prunes me....so I'm always being molded into who He wants me to be. One day it may be attitude and the next day He may be helping me on my mindset or view of the way I think situations should be. It's good for people to have a different outlook on life than I do. It's okay for things to be seen in a different light. It doesn't mean that it is wrong or right. Just different.

Example: I think that natural childbirth is the way to go! For multiple reasons that I will not list today(: It was the perfect thing for ME...BUT some people felt the right thing for them was to..maybe get an epidural or not breastfeed. Hey! That is okay!! I do not look at people who chose the opposite of me differently because they didn't want to do the same thing I did.

I guess my whole point of this blog is that so many people judge others based on their mindset or view of life. Maybe they didn't make the same decisions you did or thought differently about a subject or situation than you. They probably didn't have the same parents, same childhood, same teenage years or adult life as you. So many things affect the way that we react to situations. God has really been teaching me this the past few weeks. It has been a long time since I have looked at a person and thought differently of them because of a decision that they have made. I've learned to love people as they are. The way that I see it may be wrong anyways. It may not even be how God would have it...so I can only hope and believe that through the love He has given me that He would have His glory!

I want to look like "ME". I want to look like Sydney. The one that He always wanted me to look like. I want to walk into my purpose and call not someone else's. If I'm trying to fill someone else's shoes I'll never fill mine. He called me to be different and to be set apart. He called me to look like Him! Let's all look like Him in the way He intended us to!


There is so much more to this that I've learned but I'll keep that in my secret place. I just want to keep seeking Him and knowing Him.

In Him I find myself!