lookitzmeghan
lookitzmeghan
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Who am I? An important question we should all ask ourselves, a question I currently feel God asking me. I've come to a place in my life where there is a need to confront who I am and no longer run from it.
Ephesians 4:1, "As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received."
"...who we are" is a question we should continually ask ourselves, as Christians, as sinners, as humans. But, what does this mean? To ask ourselves who we are means to honestly confront the truth of our identity in Christ; our gifts, our callings, our shortcomings, our disposition to sin. "...my people perish for lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6) However, we must approach this question as a continual search for the rest of our lives, not with the expectation of absolute answers. Why isn't there an absolute answer in asking ourselves who we are? We constantly evolve, grow, change, purge and refine until the day we die. We must approach life with a curiosity of ourselves, the knowledge of God and others, but not use gifts, callings, sins as an absolute to define ourselves. It's a dangerous balance of constantly seeking growth, but not boxing ourselves in with the knowledge and gifts we've been given. To try and define ourselves in a vast universe in the image of God is merely a speck of dust in comparison to Him. However, knowing our dispositions to sin, our passions, our callings allows us to be more readily molded and shaped into his image. We just must not become complacent. But, if we don't ask ourselves who we are, how can we know where we fit into society, our families, or fulfill God's purpose in our lives?
So, who am I?
Many things, you'll discover in my blog, as I'm sure are you. Feel free to join me in this thing called, "life" where we constantly contemplate its meaning and whom we are in relation to it.
We have to live a lifestyle of asking ourselves who we are up against a culture and a secular world that rejects everything that is about us. How else can we find a foundation of ourselves in a broken world? After all even Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." And lastly, I don't claim to have all the answers. I'm simply embracing the journey and I invite you all along with me. Happy reading! ❤️
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