the anointing is on the real you
I’ve been feeling like myself again lately,
maybe more than I ever have.
Which is kind of crazy… because we live with ourselves every day.
But somehow we’ve become more disconnected than connected.
A few life groups ago, I was sharing some of the things I’ve been struggling with for a while, and my friend Bel said something that honestly changed everything for me:
“The anointing is on the real you.”
And I don’t even know how to explain it, but those words hit me in a way I wasn’t expecting.
Like they reached parts of me that I didn’t even realize needed healing.
It made me start asking myself questions I hadn’t really asked before…
Who is the real me?
Where is she hiding?
Why is she hiding?
And how do I bring her back?
And as I sat with that… I started realizing there have been clues all along.
In the music I listen to when no one else is around.
In what I naturally gravitate toward when I’m not thinking about how I’ll be perceived.
In what I wear when I’m dressing for my own joy instead of approval.
In the way I felt on road trips with my dad.
Backpacking around the world.
Those moments where I felt so alive and so me.
I was me when I decided not to go to college and pursue writing.
I was me when I bought fun clothes from the thrift store that no one else saw potential in.
I was me when I said yes to Jack after just a few months of dating.
When I gave my life to Jesus.
When I started my blog.
And when I really look back on all of those moments where I felt the most like myself…
they were also the moments I was closest to God.
I felt the most free.
Because I wasn’t trying to be anything other than who He created me to be.
And it’s all starting to click for me…
That quiet voice inside of us…
the one that pulls us toward certain things,
the one that nudges us,
the one that feels like truth even when it doesn’t make logical sense…
I don’t think that’s random.
I think that’s God.
And I think the world we live in does everything it can to get us to ignore it.
To question it.
To overthink it.
To talk ourselves out of it.
To choose what’s safe instead of what’s real.
Because the real you?
The one God actually created?
She’s bold.
She’s different.
She doesn’t always fit into what everyone else is doing.
And there’s always this pressure to make her more acceptable and more “normal.”
But the more we do that, the further we get from the life we’re actually meant to live.
There’s this idea I’ve been thinking about a lot…
how there’s a version of our lives that we never fully step into because we keep resisting what we feel called to do.
And sometimes it feels so easy to make the decision to ignore what you know deep down is meant for you.
To stay where it’s comfortable.
To not fully be yourself.
And that’s what keeps us stuck.
God calls us to go against the ways of the world.
And I’m starting to realize that sometimes that looks like something way simpler than we think…
It looks like authenticity.
Like actually being who you are.
Fully. Without watering yourself down.
What if that’s the real rebellion?
What if being exactly who God created you to be…
in a world that constantly tries to make you something else…
is one of the purest forms of worship there is?
So yeah…
I feel more like myself than I ever have lately.
And I feel so free.
Like I’m not performing for the world anymore.
I’m just… living.
What a beautiful thing God is doing in me.
And I really believe He’s waiting to do it for you too.
The anointing is on the real you.
Be free.
Be cool.
Be you.
You’re too cool to fit in anyway.
God made you for more than that.
