Who Am I?

Isn't this one of the big questions we try to figure out as we travel this road of life?

Who am I?

Who are you?

If we don't find the right answer to that, it can really sidetrack us and distract us.  We can end of in places we never wanted to be.  We can follow roads we really don't want to go down.

As you look around the world today, do you see any of this action?  I know I do.  I see a lot of people who are lost in a mire of pain and bad decisions and grief.
 
God knows that we need an anchor.  We need a light - his light - of truth in our lives. That's what the Bible - God's Word - is supposed to do for us.  If we let it.  God gives us a foundation to stand on when the waves of this world try to roll over us, when the pain of living in a broken world takes all the joy out of our lives, when getting out of bed in the morning and facing the day seems futile and useless.

There are way too many dark pits we can fall into if we don't have the right guide.  These pits have names like selfishness, hate, unforgiveness, cheating, lying, unfaithfulness, and the list goes on.

I agree with King David as I read the words he wrote in Psalm 8: 3 - 9 -
 
"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?  You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.  You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all the flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim in the paths of the sea.

"Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!"

This is what God created us to be.  This is how he looks at those who believe in him.  He knows our potential to be great people who love him and love others.

But it's impossible to live right and become the people God created us to be by ourselves.  It's only when we put God in the center of it all that it works.  Because that's how he created us.  That's how he created everything - with him right in the middle.

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth