Your Authenticity is Your Brand... Work It!

I've just got to be me!

What makes you authentic? What is it that sets you apart from everyone else in the world, past, present, and future? Your authenticity is your brand. Work it.

There are a lot of things that we can say about ourselves and that others can say about us. The truth lies in the middle of it all, some would say; others say it is only what God says about you that counts. I would argue it is a combination of the three.

Anyone who knows the Bible knows that God tells us we are wonderfully made in His image, and that He knew us before our great grandparents’ grandparents were a twinkle in their parents’ eyes. God says we are created from dust and spirit… that God breathed into man (Adam) and from the form of dust life was. From the breath – the movement of the Holy Spirit upon him – Adam became alive, Eve was taken from his side, and God called it good. Humanity was originally good; it was unique among the species of the earth… and these are both true to this day.

When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, it was the sin that was seen as bad and evil… the action to try to be more like God than He designed them for. And throughout the Bible and through history we can see that humanity is tinged with sin but that with God on our side, helping us, we are essentially good. Essentially. And each of us, from Adam forward, is unique.

To use myself as an example, I can say that my personality on the Myers-Briggs is INFJ and that my Style Statement is Sacred Femininity. In looking at my spiritual gift mix of creative ability, intercession, prophecy, and knowledge (strongest) with mercy, wisdom, faith, and exhortation as secondary gifts,  and tertiary gifts of discerning of spirits, hospitality, and healing, there is evidence of why INFJ and Sacred Femininity work so well for me. All of these things lend themselves to one another.

Aside from this, there are the gifts in the natural… most of which stem from the creative ability gift in the spiritual. Experience, relationships, and even geography…  all of it go into making me who I am, as God designed.

Most of the art in my apartment was designed by me. Five shelves of books that have impacted my life sit a few feet from where I type this, and there are many more that I do not possess which have changed, challenged, helped create the mindset and therefore the life which I now lead.

What makes YOU authentic? Your authenticity is your brand!