know me by His scars.

This doesn’t fit with my current rollout of adventure logs – but I’m curious. Do all writers feel like frauds?

I am whoever my Maker says I am. Somehow, He has made me into a writer, a co-creator, co-author.

Yet some days, that feels fake. That I’m not doing anything noteworthy. That I’m not good enough at writing. That I’m not good at writing.

Maybe that’s my own doubts taking over. Lies creeping into my mind, things that need to just be washed away by the blood soap of the Lamb.

It gives me pause. Makes me question my worthiness of writing anything down at all. Publishing anything. Thinking whatever words come out of me actually have any value – have any more value than whatever anyone else is writing. Are something that you ought to spend your hard-won free moments giving attention to rather than the whatever the next thing is.

I’m not sufficient. I know that. But I also know that Yeshua, my Salvation, has declared that He will be my sufficiency.

That my roots below mean something, that even when I can’t feel it, He’s working to cause blossoms of fruits above. Fruits that will fill the whole earth.

It’s almost funny how fickle human nature is. How quickly I can go from the lush valley of life to the dry desert of the mountain tops, the shadow of death. But this death is just a shadow. It can’t touch me, and it will pass. It can only try to block the light; it can’t eviscerate it.

So I turn to the One who knows the next steps forward.

I don’t live daily or make decisions based off my emotions, how they come to me. I make the choice to follow Truth. Daily. To let my Creator continue to mold me into who He wants me to be, because it’s who He says I am.

I will take Him at His word, because His word means something. His promises are promises. He is who He says He is, so I also am who He says I am.

He is the Way, so I will follow and obey.

He is the Truth, so I will believe and trust.

He is the Life, so where else can I go?

“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” – John 14:6 (NKJV)

“Simon Peter answered, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You [alone] have the words of eternal life [you are our only hope].’” – John 6:68 (AMP)

“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” – 2 Corinthians 3:5-6 (ESV)

“I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to fulfill His purpose—I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency; I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace.]” – Philippians 4:13 (AMP)

The best is yet to come!

Emily