Get Up.

Without further a due, let’s go straight on the simple yet relevant revelations that I saw in this verse. This are as follows: 

Arise. – What makes you rise up every day in the morning? What gives you the reason to get out of your bed and start a new day? It may be because of your family, friends or your loved ones. Or you want to do something significant or forget the past and start all over again. It may be a hope that something great will happen to you this day. Or you’re one day closer to your success. Whatever the reasons may be, it’s certain that it will not be the opposite and contrary from those reasons that will lead you to get up. We don’t need to be crippled by fear, inferiority, brokenness, discouragement, depression, and prostration in which circumstances have kept us. You don’t need to be stuck by the memories of your past. Rising up is a matter of choice. And that’s what God expects us to do. It is a word spoken in the lines of hope. Every single day is an opportunity for us to arise and see what our loving God has in store for us. Never miss that by not pulling yourself up and stay where you are staying. 

Shine. – I believe that we’re not meant to live just to survive in life. We’re meant also to thrive in life. Therefore, we cannot afford to live in mediocrity. Be the best person that you can be in your sphere of influence. You can stand out beyond others if you chose to be one. It becomes transpired as you decide to live it out day by day. Discipline is formed and faithfulness is produced through time. Tapping on the grace of God gives you the empowerment to conquer every mountains, break every obstacles, and reach your goals. And this time, not on the basis of competition or achievement but for glorifying Him. Also, the only reason why we can shine in this earth is because there is someone who lives in the inside of us that in His life brings light in us. Which leads us to the next phrase. 

For your light has come. - The fact that Jesus, being the light of this world, lives and resides in the inside of us, we are meant to shine. Not only that, we are called to bring light and enlightenment in this darkened world. And imagine if all of us will unite the light that we have, we can make darkness that tries to invade in every area and aspects of life be dispelled. In Him there is no darkness, and as we position ourselves in His light, it radiates us and brings us into the place of revelation that will bring us to clarity and direction and purpose in our lives. 

And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. – That word “glory” in the Hebrew means weightiness that which is substantial or heavy; power, authority, wealth, magnificence, fame, dignity, riches and excellence. We as believers must be the coolest and the greatest people in the face of the planet. We have no reason to settle for less, to live defeated and discouraged lives. Take note that it is risen upon us. The fact that we have Jesus makes God’s glory to be deposited in us. The only hindrance why we can’t experience it is due to the fact that we failed to understand and grasp the reality of the glory that He has bestowed upon us through Christ. We tend to sleep, dim, and let darkness hover in our lives. That must not be so. We can always experience His glory as we purpose it to invade our lives and to become dependent of the Holy Spirit. You can’t help when you are filled with His glory but to move.


We do really like to dwell in the bittersweet caress of our issues as if there is a radiance of glory that we will get from it. But we are not mandated to live like that. Shifting our perspective to what God expects us to do removes all the drama. The only grounds why we can arise and shine in this life is attributed to those things mentioned above. Try to find another reasons from these and it will leave you frustrated and wandering in this life.

We are exposed in an environment where we are susceptible to be bogged down. But when we are committed to this verse that God tells us to do, you are helping yourself to become a conqueror. It does not leave you as a victim in life. You position yourself to become a victor in life.

Oh, by the way, the verse is not conveyed in a requesting manner. It is a persuasive command. :)

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         “Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.”

                                                                                                                           Isaiah 60:1

Identifying Your Identity.

We tend to look in different meanings for us to define who we really are, thus, searching for our identity which determines the purpose that we want to live. Admit it or not, most of us have associated ourselves with different things, places, events, and people that implicitly affect our sense of identity.Which when left unguarded makes our thinking and seeing of ourselves become different and be influenced from how God thinks and sees of us.

Yes, we have heard it a lot of times that our identity is found in Christ. But how from that hearing it has produced faith in the inside of ourselves and experienced the fruition of it?

Even the Apostle Paul was not exempted in this tussle between who he was and who he really is. He has the rights to brag on what he has acclaimed in his life back then and he thought that the identity he’s living out in the past will fully define the course of his life. Until he encountered Christ.

Through revelation, a new identity was birthed out from the inside of him. So strong to the point that he forsook his earthly identity in order for him to gain his identity in Christ. Take note that his ardor in his mission to do what God has called him to do didn’t relied only when he first knew who He is in Christ. It was produced when he claimed and grasped it for himself.

He realized that what he knew wasn’t enough to sustain him from every circumstances that he faced. And for him to withstand all of it, he made an effective way to affirm himself His purpose as to why He has gone too far for this. The secret was he did not settle himself by just knowing who He is. He identified and claimed himself fully rooted in Christ. 

From the place of knowing, he progressed in the position of identifying. 

And that strengthened Him completely that made him endure it even more until the end. And his words written in Galatians reflects the gravity of it.

Yes. It’s a good thing to know first who we are in Him. But it does not need to stop there. The situations, your circumstances and this world will try to undermine your godly knowledge about who you really are. And as we are continually growing up in Christ, unless we fully identify ourselves in the knowledge of who we are in Him (and who He is to us) and claim it, we cannot see the fruit of our knowledge produce its effect in our lives, leaving us in a state of frustration and exasperation.

But the rules of the game begins to change when we fully identify ourselves with Him. It starts to liberate us from the influences and the prejudices of this world.Knowing your identity makes you discover what you can do but identifying your identity establishes who you really are. Claiming its reality for yourself changes everything.

It is noteworthy for us to know that we are loved. Accepted in the beloved.A new creature in Christ.The righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Having the mind of Christ. A child of God. Forgiven. Redeemed.Free.Sanctified. Victorious. More than conquerors. Blessed. And so on and so forth.

The Apostle Paul spoke that and claimed that, and so do you. All of those things mentioned above are a fact stated in the divine old book. By having this grasp of identifying our identity that’s solely anchored in Christ, right then and there only that those insecurities, anxieties, and worries in our lives become dispelled.

By the way, this identity is not something that you have struggled to achieve. It is who you really are.You just need to identify it in yourself. It’s yours already. Just activate it. Through Christ.