I Do, I Do, I Do

You know those times when you have to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and stop feeling sorry for yourself and get going with what you're supposed to get going with? You have to tell yourself, "I will!" I will finish my homework, this work project, the laundry. David said "I will" 500 times in the Psalms. Of course, some of these references are also "I will not", but it is still a self proclamation. If you don't tell yourself to do it, it won't get done. If you don't feel like it, you still have to tell yourself to do it or it won't get done.

I'm not really talking about those times. Telling yourself "I will" is necessary for those times when you need to do it. But what about what you will become as you develop into your place in the Kingdom? You may already have a glimpse of what that looks like. You may be working toward that reality and believing for it already. That's when you need to stop saying, "I will" be such and such and start saying "I am!" Start claiming it now, even if you're only on the first rung of that ladder. You'll become what you're called to faster if you start believing that you are. The message of the Little Engine That Could is great, but I don't think I'm what God has called me to, I know I am, I know I am.

I've noticed some of the praise songs that pop into my head say, "I will praise the Lord." I started changing them to "I do praise the Lord." I will sounds so distant, like, when I get around to it. I don't want to honor God, oh, some time. I will honor Him now. He's not the God of the past or the future. He's here and now, just like my destiny in Him. I am what I'm called to be, whether anyone else can see it or not. Someday I'll grow into it and it will be more obvious. I am, He is, I do, and so do you!