It took me 35 years to figure out who I am. Now I know who God made me to be, what God made me to do, and how I am divinely gifted to help people. I have figured out that God made me to learn, study, write, teach, preach, mingle, and meet. Give me a series to preach, a book to write, or a group of strangers to meet, and I will be in my happy place. But give me a complex problem to solve, a situation that requires extra empathy, or a team to lead, and I will do more harm than good. That’s me.
Who are you? Have you figured it out yet? Have you thought about your personality or experiences, the compliment clues to your gifts, and the complaint clues to your weaknesses? You being you, according to the Bible, is as important as ears being ears instead of trying to be eyes. We need you. Jesus’ church needs you. This is why God emphatically says, “Be you!”
“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us” (Romans 12:4-6). You and I don’t have the same gifts or same functions in life. Pray today that the Spirit would help you see whom God created you to be, uniquely and wonderfully made!
