One of my favorite chapters

Daniel and I are reading an amazing book I think everyone should read. It is essential for the Christian life and how we view ourselves in light of what the Bible says about who we are. We are only a few chapters in, but have already been deeply impacted by this book. The book is called "The Supernatural Ways of Royalty" by Kris Vallotton and Bill Johnson. 

One of my favorite chapters in this book is called "lizards in the palace". The essence of this chapter is lost without the story he begins the chapter with. It's a simple story about an interaction between his two grandchildren. One of them is a little boy who is 3 years old and his cousin, a girl who is 5. Although the boy is younger he is actually bigger than his cousin. They finished watching a special on TV about lizards and crocodiles. The little girl decides she will be the crocodile and her younger (but stronger) cousin will be the lizard. 

As the story progresses she continually tells her cousin that he is weaker than she is, even though he easily pins her down in a wrestling match and eventually the only thing he can do as a lizard is use his mouth to lick....

The analogy the author was making is that often times the enemy tells us that we are powerless. He "names" us and it is never anything powerful. It is always something meaningless or dis - empowering. His tactic is to keep us from knowing who we really are, if we know WHO we are then we will know WHAT we were born to do and HOW we can change the world. 

I love this analogy, I think each of us dreams about changing the world around us, and if you haven't dreamed about changing the world then perhaps it is because you haven't been awakened to who you really are. Changing the world doesn't necessarily mean that you will move in the public eye, but if you change the circumstances of one individual or place then you have changed the world, and we all do that everyday, for the good and for the bad.....