About This Gal

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Lisa Ross

Hello, I’m Lisa and I’m so happy you’re here! This is just a little space where I periodically share my thoughts and the conversations I have with my Father. I have blogged in the past and found it to be incredibly therapeutic. I also love to look back and see what God has been saying to me at different points in my life, and writing is simply a natural way for me to accomplish that goal. But more than all of that, I’ve learned through the years that the things we go through are rarely just for us. So I put it all out there—the good, the bad, and the ugly—just in case one of my experiences could contain a Heavenly encouragement to you in whatever situation you may be facing.

If you find yourself saying, “I don’t know…I’m not exactly the church-going type,” that’s okay. You don’t have to look a certain way or fit into a particular mold to be part of this community. I have certainly never felt like I fit the “typical” Christian caricature. But you know what? I have also never felt God asking me to do so. Therefore, I would certainly never lay those ill-fitting expectations upon you either. Just understand this…When you are with me, you will be loved, right where you are, and invited (not pressured) into a deeper relationship with Jesus. What you do with that is up to you. Deal?! 🙂 The only rules here are that we respect one another and speak words of life and encouragement. That seems fair enough to me!

What is a 220 Gal?

The phrase “220 Gal” has been rattling around in my brain for quite a while now. It’s a play on Galatians 2:20 (see below). As I read this scripture several months ago, God set my heart ablaze and I knew I was reading my very identity.

A 220 Gal is one who has stopped chasing the acceptance of God and/or man by performing. She is a person who understands that she can never do enough or be good enough to earn God’s favor. But it’s okay because she is now dead and, in her place, Christ lives. It is Jesus whom the Father sees when He looks at her, so she is always enough. It is Jesus whom others sense when she lets go of her ego and just allows God to do whatever crazy thing He wants to do in and through her and the results aren’t her problem. The outcomes are all on Him! A 220 Gal is free and a she is mighty and she refuses to go back to anything less than the fullness of the life for which God Himself created her because nothing else can satisfy!

I may still be figuring out how to fully be this Gal, but by God’s grace I’m becoming her—day by day, from glory to glory—and I just want to invite others to join me for the ride. She is who we are all called to be! (Yes, even the fellas…though I’m sure they won’t be nearly as excited about being called a “220 Gal.” Lol)

The fullness of Galatians 2:20 is actually found in verses 19-21. Check it out, from The Message Bible, below.

What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.

Galatians 2:20 (MSG)

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