Identity
So I have been learning more about who I am, my Identity. I am learning that I am not the bad things that people may think or say about me nor am I good things that people say or think about me. I may display those qualities from time to time but in no way does that limit or define me to only those qualities. I have knew this for a while but I am starting to have a better grasp on it. For example if someone says “you are a mean person”, that is not who you are but you may be tempted to think “am I a mean person? ” or if enough people say it in your life time you may be tempted to think and eventually agree that “you are a mean person.” Then there is the other side when we hear nice thing from people about our selves. Wow you are a nice person, or you are really artsy or some compliment upon your abilities. All of sudden we start trying to do more of what we got the compliment on and slowly we let this compliment define us.
Let say one day you stop being artsy or you don’t feel like being nice or that ability everyone has been complimenting you on is absent and you can’t do what you used to be able to do… where has your identity gone? It is no where to be found. My friend Clarence spoke about this the other day and I agree with him that my identity can’t be wrapped up in what I can accomplish or what I can not accomplish because at some point I will not have an Identity if these temporary little things are all that is defining me.
So where do I find my Identity? I go to the one who created me. My Identity is not my feelings and emotions, thoughts and mind, or personality which are a part of my soul . God already tells me who I am in his word. He lets me know the truth about me, that when all these things that I thought I was are gone there is a me that is even deeper a me that He knows, a me that was dead but he brought back to life. My spirit, the core of me who he created originally. It’s important to figure out who you really are and not let yourself get defined by the good and bad things in this world, but instead by the one who has already defined you