Who am I?

One of our greatest tasks in life is to answer the question, Who Am I?

A person might respond to this question by describing their physical characteristics such as eye and hair color, height, build, etc. Others might be quick to add their temperment as well their personality.

Sometimes we act a bit cocky and self-confident which causes others around us to pose the question to us: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Other times, we are a bit hesistant to perform a task and are like Moses, doubting our own ability in a certain area. God appeared to Moses instructing him to stand before Pharoah, the king of Egypt - the most powerful man in the world. Moses was to bring him a message from God, Let my people go that they may serve me. Moses was smart enough to know that this would make Pharoah angry and would jeopardize his own life. Moses did not desire the task and thought himself inferior to perform the task that God had given him.

Do you find yourself struggling with who you really are? What has God asked you to so that you believe that you have the ability. I can't do that God - Don't you know who I am? How I have messed up in the past? You have the wrong person. Maybe you are struggling with areas that you know you need to change, but you are quick to use the excuse: That's not who I am; or, That's not me - You will have to accept me for who I am.

The fact of the matter is that we have a hard time knowing who we are apart from God's help. God knows us better than anyone else. Jeremiah tells us that The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Then he asks the question, Who can know it? We have a hard time knowing our own heart and discerning our motives.

As we spend time with Him, God reveals to us who we really are. In this case, the truth hurts. I am glad that God not only knows who we are, but He knows whom we will become. He desires to give us a new identity in Christ and to impart His divine nature into our lives:

2 Peter 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

The next time you are battling with a task that God has called you to do or a change that God desires you to make in your life, remember: God knows who you are, what you are capable to do with his strength, and whom he desires you to become.