What are you?

I woke up this morning with a popular Christian song on my mind. It states, "I am because You are."

As a homemaker and home schooling mother, there are a lot of things I feel like I am NOT. I'm not organized enough, I'm not healthy enough, I'm not patient enough, I'm not thrifty enough, I'm not fun enough.

But because of the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, I am.

I AM beautiful, even without makeup or the latest fashions, or even, sad to say, stylish shoes.
     "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the LORD, she shall be praised." Proverbs 31:30

I AM peaceful, even when the baby is crying, the boys are fighting, the girls are spilling food coloring everywhere, and the pasta is boiling over.
     "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful." John 14:27

I AM befriended, even when I feel lonely, when I'm too exhausted to enjoy my husband after bedtime, when I don't get "me-time" all day long, or even when someone unfriends me on Facebook.
     "From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known to you." John 15:15

I AM forgiven, even when I feel guilty, when my anger controls me, when my regrets haunt me, when my failures crush me.
     "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." I John 1:9


I AM chosen, regardless of my powers of organization, persuasion, bedtime prowess, mastery of the English language, or any works of righteousness apart from the Holy Spirit.
     "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." I Peter 2:9
     ^"And so, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; ¹³bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.   ¹⁴And beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.  ¹⁵And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. ¹⁶Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.  ¹⁷And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father." Colossians 3:12-17

When your world is swirling in chaos and your duties blind your heart to the whispering of Jesus, remember what you are.