God’s Girl: The Me God wants me to Be, Part 3

Whose girl are you, Alicia? God’s simple question echoed in my soul for days. I’ve often looked back on that encounter with my Maker and wondered how I had forgotten such an elementary truth. As a little girl, I was introduced to God as my Heavenly Father, and I had taken great delight in loving him. Having lived as the daughter of a kind and generous earthly father, I had no trouble relating to the Creator of the universe as my eternal Abba. I can still remember sitting on a tiny wooden chair by a child-sized wooden table in Sunday school class and gazing at the oil painting of Jesus on the wall. In that picture, He was surrounded by children. They were sitting on his lap, climbing on his knee, and clinging to his legs. But what I remember most is the sparkle that the artist had painted in my Savior’s eyes as if to say, “Come on, I’ve got room for you, too!” And for most of my life I had taken him at his word.

Ironically, something happened when I welcomed children of my own. Without realizing it, I began to believe that I had outgrown God’s lap. Surely I couldn’t climb on His knee as my own toddlers clung to mine! As the grand responsibility of parenthood loomed before me, I inadvertently surrendered an important piece of who I was.  I became so focused on my children that I failed to remember the One who had created me as his child long before He’d placed life in my womb. I was still a child of the King; I had simply stopped living like one.

Today’s Treasure:  You are children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.  -Galatians 3:26.