Sunday, December 6, 2009,12:45 AM
Who Am I? What is my identity?
Totally thankful and glad that I attended church service today. I finally found the answer to the questions that I kept asking myself. It was God who gave me the answer, I guess after crying out for so much after having so much hurt, he decided to give me the answer that I was seeking throughout my life.
I was struggling so much with this question of who am I? Who exactly am I? The identity question. I think I am not the only one struggling with this identity question. Today Pastor Khong preached about on this message " The Blood That Save Your Face", and this message was all about finding our identity. He told us Jesus lost his identity so that we could find our identity which is in him, this is when he died on the cross and was crucified.
There was this part in the bible in the chapter of Exodus, where Moses asked who is he.(Exodus 3 :11) God answered "I'll be with you". (Exodus 3:12) God said I am who I am. I am has sent me to you. (Exodus 3:14) The message that God wants to tell you is that you are who he is, that's your true identity.
Many of the times when your friends ask you who are you. Usually we would answer we are what our occupation is, we are our race, we tend to identify ourselves with what we do best as who we are, but the matter of fact that is not who we are. A lot of times we struggle to identify ourselves.
Today's message is about God telling us that it's not about who we are. We are who we are. He is who he is. When we know who he is, we would know who we are. We identify ourselves in him. We should not be discovering ourselves but most important we need to discover who God is. When you seek yourself, we often lose ourselves. Many of us find identity in our success and with what we are doing. When we seek ourselves we lost God and we sinned.
When we do not know our identity we do not know which direction or where to go because our identity determines our actions. When you are conscious about yourself, you fear, you fear people or the human beings of the world because you are trying to be them so to lift up to the standard that the people around the world set. We try to please people with things we do not like, we tend to lift up to the opinion with others, we lost ourselves. We do not see God. If you realised people love to call us by our weakness, but God never calls us by our weakness.The Devil usually robs by attacking our identity, that's when you are gone.
Therefore I am who the Lord, God is and not what the people of the world thinks. That would be who I am I am special. This message came so timely. My identity is me and there is nothing to find out about who I am. :)
