Finding Your Shine
- Dr. Dorie McKnight
- May 2
- 2 min read
Finding your shine, finding your star, or call to purpose will start with your walk of surrender and sacrifice.
Finding your purpose to activate your star may take years. No child, when it is born, is aware of why it is here. That baby knows 2 to 3 things … hunger, fear, and needing comfort. The baby cries until we figure it out. Then they figure it out too … such is life. What will get your attention and wake up a desire to save someone or a cause? It's a process repeated year after year, stage after stage, until full maturity comes.
Finding your shine can be tricky because it will depend on who you are, where you came from, and what you are destined to be. Your shine will depend on what you see, good or bad, that has shaped your world around you. Will your shine or light be birthed from a good experience or a bad one? We have already learned that most light will be found in darkness. Light will manifest in dark places. Your processing began years ago, but has finally come to light. To come to light means to reveal a thing.
To come to light means to shine. It's a ‘now I understand’ moment.
Your purpose depends on your upbringing, your mentors, your teachers, your experiences … the things that you went through personally that will help you develop your shine. All of us had parents and teachers, we went through school, some went to college, some went to graduate schools. Some grew up in ministry but in all of our lives, we had teachers those who put their hands on us to help shape us and form us in some way. Some in good ways, some in bad ways. Our teachers were in classrooms and on the streets just living life. Lessons were found in every season of life!
What is your shine? Where is your shine? How will you shine? When will your shine appear? Where will you shine? Good questions!
Despite everything you have gone through in life, God has a plan for you! He has a purpose for you. There is a place where God is going to lift you high and let your light shine down on what you are supposed to bring light, revelation, and illumination to. Your light will shine on a path that will lead others to safety, to victory. It may be a coming-out period if you have gone through something terrible or traumatizing or even something good. Lights lead, they don't follow! Shadows follow.
I have said this before, you were delivered to become a deliverer. So, let your light shine and lead someone out of darkness!
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