Discovering Who I Am

Truth is not produced by our coming to understand it. Truth is like a colossal mountain that I fail to notice because I have been walking through life with my head down and eyes on the ground. Suddenly, I lift my head and see the mountain for the fist time and somehow think that the mountain would not have come to exist if I had not lifted my eyes and discovered it.

In a similar fashion, we don’t discover who we are and then become it: we are what God created us to be from the beginning of time. As we lift our eyes and look to the Creator, our identity is revealed and we either agree with the truth and it is manifest, or we deny the truth and go on living as something we are not. Often, we give more merit to what another person said we are than we give to the one who created us. (And most often, that person does not really know who they are, let alone who we are.) Yet we agree with them without question and become the very thing we believe –like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Let us look to the Creator for our identity and agree with Him. Let us question everything we believe about ourselves and hold it up to the flame of scrutiny: where did it come from, and how did I come to believe it? Let us invite the Spirit to reveal the truth about who He designed each of us to be, and then become that very thing.