The Message Every Daughter Needs to Hear

Dear Daughters,

I know who you are. I have watched you and seen the battles you have faced to get you where you are today.

The world talks about equality…

But I have seen you weakened, depleted, lethargic, and vulnerable.

But daughter, here is the truth…You were born for more.

You came into this world full of optimistic, hopefulness, and innocence…

But somewhere along the way, the world’s messages have derailed you….

Told you, you were nothing, ignorant, helpless, useless.

You have been victimized by society, told to hide or shrink back, forcing you to clothe yourself in false confidence, or plastic images…

But, that is not who you are.

You were made to rise up, as royalty. Take your place as the bride, next to the King of Kings, an heir of His Kingdom.

He saw you in your mother’s womb, didn’t hate or discard you. He chose you as beautiful, pre-ordained, and dearly loved.

If you are breathing, reading this, and taking in this message…

Whether you are wrinkled, or a teenager, successful, or fighting daily against your oppressor for hope….

You have a job to do.

Don’t let the enemy lull you into safe harbors. Convince you your too weak or helpless. Brainwash you with the lies that you are insignificant, too far gone, or too tainted to be used.

There is nothing and no one beyond Him using. You are a child of the Most High God.

And unlike other damsels in despair, you are called to be more than a princes…but a warrior.

Like Deborah, you are called to lead the charge into warfare, against injustice. You are His chosen vessel, an ordained leader, someone filled with grace and wisdom…called to witness and use your testimony to help others…

People are watching how you live your life…even if you don’t think so….

So, how are you going to live?

Are you going to shrink back a victim, let the world tease you into believing you are no more than your waist size or body image….

Tricked into believing, your whole identity is somehow wrapped in what some man says you are.

You are more than a commodity, an ornament, or decoration.

You are more than some wilting flower needing a prince to come in some earthly image, or with false promises, or conditional praise….

Oh daughter, you can stop looking….your prince has already found you?

He didn’t crawl down from some horse, but crawled up on a cross. He didn’t give you some glass slipper, but took your ragged and replaced your guilt and shame by clothing you in white.

Now sister, will you take the robe He is now offering you? Slip off the weight of oppression, the standards or earthly images, the empty promises the world is dangling before you?

You aren’t living from your past. But from today forward.

His yoke is easy, and you don’t have to be perfect. You are not some Pinterest image, or even what your boyfriend says you are…

You are more. Created for eternity.

Your worth is not determined in fame, fortune, Facebook likes, or who at school likes you.

Your worth is found in Him.

So daughter, don’t give into to this cultural pressure to covet other figures, other examples of what it means to be pretty, glorious, loved….

Your worth is found in the One who will return on a white horse, rescue you from all the harm and heart-ache…

The One who gave His life to Redeem you out of love….

Don’t settle for anything less.

Be strong in Scripture, well-scripted in your identity, confident in your position, taking risks to grow and be educated.

After all, who around you has the right to tell you what He has created you to be.

It’s the artist job to describe His work…not the clay who defines the creation.

Oh dear daughter, I wish I could go back. I wish I could live bold with the realization that my life wasn’t what others said.

That I was creative, beautiful, talented, and that I didn’t need to bend my identity to a world whose idea of beautiful is fickle, and always changing.

So, rise up today daughter, will you? Whether your eighteen or eighty, the world needs YOU. There are enough pacifist, victims, who shrink back from the enemies chasing…

What the world needs is women who walk boldly, unapologetically, women who walk in her destiny, rising to fulfill His purposes….without wavering, or listening to those who bring her down. 

The world needs you, daughter. Please don’t just listen, or pretend, settle for empty religion, or parade yourself for images and things displayed simply on the outside.

Live for more. Live for Him. Love wildly. Invest in your eternal inheritance.

Walk where He is calling.

You only have one life to live daughter, how will you live it?

Your a daughter of the King.