Post #16 - Who Should I Be?

We all go through a time in our lives when we try to figure out who we are. And if we are not careful, we can allow our circumstances and other people to decide for us.

Some of us allow our past to determine who we are. We think that the bad experiences we went through are what defines us.

But they don't.

Just because you went through or struggled with something, doesn't mean that's who you are. That divorce you got doesn't make you a failure. It doesn't mean that you will forever be a divorcee. And because you have struggled with an addiction doesn't mean that you are still and will forever be an addict.

We have been healed and delivered from the struggles of our past and we have to stop identifying with them. We need to stop calling ourselves what we've been through.

We are who God says we are!

And He doesn't call us according to what we have done and what we've been through. He calls us by where He is taking us - who He has destined us to be.

So, instead of looking at ourselves from the lens of our past, we should seek to find our identity in God.

He has a special purpose for us that He had planned before we even existed. God says in Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you..." And when we seek Him and ask our identity in Him, He will reveal it to us.

Throughout the bible, we can learn what God says about who we are and who we can be.

He says that we are love, we are righteousness, we are giant killers, we are overcomers, we are forgiveness, we are healers, we are miracle workers, we are rich, we are strong, we are more than enough, we are the head and not the tail, we are more than conquerors , and we are much, much more.

When we focus on what God says about us rather than listening to what others say, what the enemy says, or even what we say about ourselves, we are sure to find who we are.

But we have to go to the source, to the one who made us.

It is only in God that we will find our true identity.