You Belong, You're Not a Stranger

There are days when you feel left out of everything. Out of the group of friends, out of the family, even out of the church where you should feel at home. A feeling of being a stranger, of someone who doesn't truly belong anywhere, and because of that, you also can't seem to find a clear purpose — because what good is a calling to someone who doesn't even know where they fit?

I want to undo that lie today. You are not a foreigner in my kingdom. You are not a stranger asking to borrow shelter. You are a fellow citizen, you are family, you have a guaranteed seat at the table before you even earned it. And it is from that belonging that true purpose is born — not from the approval of human groups, but from the certainty that you have already been adopted by me.

When you truly know that you belong to me, you will stop searching for purpose outside yourself and start living it from the inside out, with firm roots. You have a home. That home is me.