"How do I find God in my life?"

Recently someone asked me the seemingly simple question "how do I find God in my life?". Such a simple question, should provide a simple answer, right? I mean we know that God is all around us, "omnipresent" if you will. We know that He doesn't hide from any of us. In fact, we know through His word that his Holy Spirit lives IN us. Yet I found myself struggling to find a "simple" answer.

Not wanting to leave my friend empty handed in her brave and commendable search to know Him, I gave her the simplest response I could give her. I explained the importance of "relationship" and gave her advice on how to start building it. Reading it back, you would think that what I said was correct; it was helpful, easy to follow, and probably the sort of response she was looking for.  Yet I couldn't help but feel like I had left something out... and I had. In fact, I had completely misinformed her. And in doing so, I realised how misinformed I had been in the beginnings of my relationship with Him. So instead of simply messaging her the answer i've concluded with, I thought it would be worth posting on here.

Question: "How do I find God in my life?"

Answer: "You don't."

Hear me out. The BIGGEST mistake I ever made in my relationship with God was constantly seeking out where He was in MY LIFE. Don't get me wrong, I found God - over and over I found Him... but over and over I lost Him. Why? Because instead of seeking Him, I was seeking for His PLACE in MY life. And newsflash; God is far, FAR too big for mine, or any one of our lives.

"Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it." Luke 17:33 KJV

The question I would urge anyone trying to find God to ask is: "How do I find myself in God?".

I can't give a perfect answer, because everyone's journey and relationship is different, but I can tell you some of the key ways that I do it. Firstly, you need to seek God's truth about who YOU are in him - all of which you can find in God's handy dandy notebook (the Holy Bible). Here are a few key truths God has written for you to discover about yourself:

You have been CHOSEN, from the beginning.

"...because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:" 2 Thessalonians 2:13 KJV

By His grace you are REDEEMED. 

"In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" Ephesians 1:7 KJV

You are FORGIVEN.

"As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." Psalms 103:12

You are LOVED.

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:10 KJV

These are only four of a whole lot more truths than I can count, the truth about your identity and who you were created to be. You can find the rest in your bible, or if that's too much to ask to start off with you can literally google "who I am in Christ" and you'll see thousands of results. No one is too far gone to walk in the purpose God has for them, and to walk in relationship with Him. He knew you before your mother even thought about you, he CHOSE you for a specific purpose, designed for your hands alone. He loved and will never stop loving you, and he has already forgiven you, and will redeem you when you walk towards him.

So, to my friend - this is the advice I should have given you from the start, and I hope this encourages you to seek your identity through Christ, then relationship will follow. Although I will say, it's easy to forget these things, you need to remind yourself everyday, and don't let the enemy cover the truth with His lies. You are so much more valued than you will ever know. So, so loved, is WHO you are, through him.

Until next time,

Mikayla Katherine xx

Why Did I Started Blogging?!

Once again, I put writing at the bottom of my priority list... and once again, I felt like something was missing. I tell myself blogging/writing is a waste of time, no one reads it and I could be tidying the house or reading a book to "expand my mind", even though i've told myself time and time again that none of the above excuses are true. So how do I get back on my writing buzz and keep this blog train chugging? Well, I can't really be sure... but I do know of a good place to start.

What's my "WHY"?

Why did I start this blog in the first place? What was the initial inspiration to put my thoughts on the internet? And why do I want to continue to do so?

Well, I guess it all began when I learnt about our friend google, and being an 9 or 10 year old girl, my DREAM was to be a fashion designer, so I used to google outfits and different fashion ideas. Then I found out you could upload your own stuff, so I used to collect all of my favourite fashion images off the internet and use Windows Movie Maker (cringe) on my parent's Dell dinosaur to create a power point looking video with my favourite music playing in the background (oh how I wish I knew where to find this on the net). Then one thing lead to another and I learnt about blogs, and not only that but how many types of blogs there were. I went through fazes and obsessions with DIY, makeup, health, creating my own content as well, but me being me giving up and deleting the blog and/or YouTube channel after one post because I believed I "wasn't interesting enough" (this happened at least 10 times).

And now here we are... hopefully this time it sticks, because I truly do love writing and creating.

So I guess my why began when i became inspired by other peoples content and creativity, and I wanted the chance to share my own. And that still is true, but now it's not just the creating that I love, but it's the inspiration of each thing I create. I want to be able to find myself a little possy in a subject, idea or situation and shine some light, ask questions and bring something new and thought provoking into it. I also want the chance to document my life, and to share some of the tools I use, and lessons I've learnt in this beautiful journey.

I'm just a regular girl, with a heart that can't contain all it holds - and here is where I want to put some of the love it has to give, in the hope that at least 1 person will receive some of that love. (Still the same weird kid in this picture ;) )

Anyway, enough babble - I hope you enjoyed the brief read. I'd love to know what's something you enjoy, and what's your why behind it? Leave me a comment below :-)

Until next time,

Mikayla Katherine xx