Are You Building Someone Else’s Life? | Anchor Points with Devin Almonte

Have you looked at LEGO sets lately?

Almost every one of them comes pre-loaded with someone else's story. Star Wars. Marvel. Minecraft. You're not really building anymore. You're just recreating what someone else already made and tells us to build.

I noticed it over Christmas and couldn’t find a simple set to build a simple town or store without a brand attached to it.

We do this too. Somewhere along the way we start attaching ourselves to labels and groups and someone else's ready-made story. Are you the crunchy mom or the career woman? The conservative Christian or the progressive one? And after a while those things start to feel like identity. Like that's just who we are. We build up a story that really isn’t who we are.

But First Samuel 16:7 says the Lord doesn't look at any of that. He looks at the heart.

God gives us the pieces. He even gives us a plan. But what gets built from those pieces is uniquely yours from the Lord. The story He's writing through you won't look exactly like anyone else's.

You're not meant to build someone else's set.

💬 Want to talk about it?

What labels have shaped how you see yourself?

What would it look like to let God define you instead? .