Who am I?

 

               It’s funny to me how difficult this question can be to so many.  Often when someone is presented with the question they will pause, they might reply with a description of their career, talk about their families, or they may not have an answer at all.  It’s a pretty easy question to answer.  I mean, as humans we have many ways to identify ourselves. We have names, we know our dates of birth, we have social security numbers, and we have all types of records.  This time of year if you don’t know who you are I suggest calling the IRS, they can tell you!

               Somewhere down the road the question, “Who am I?” was confused with the question, “What is my purpose?”  This question is much more difficult.  I have decided that for me it is not a question I should try to answer.  I don’t know that any person can truly answer this question. 

               Who am I?  The Bible explains creation in a profound poem known as the book of Genesis.  While there is so much debate about different parts of the Bible, whether it is literal or figurative, Genesis does not fit the mold of any other theological argument.  The book is beautifully written in a way that, while it does leave many, many questions, it leaves absolutely no doubt of Divine intervention.  God created. I believe that Genesis is literal, not in time, not in a way that we fully understand, but in the way that God created.  I believe that we are no more than dust from the ground exposed to Divine purpose.

               What is my purpose?  I don’t know.  I can’t answer that question.  I do know this, my life is not my own.  The Bible tells us very clearly in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 that “you are not your own; you were bought for a price.”  To try and say that I am here for any reason that I can think of would be selling myself short.  I can only know who I am, and seek God’s purpose for me.

Tomorrow’s theme; Return.