Mar. 16: Who am I?

You are not what you do. You are not your job. You are not your “stuff”—your baggage, your “issues”, your shortcomings. To find out who we are, we need only check the manufacturer’s handbook. The One who made you knows who you are…what you are to be…what you are to become.

King David of Israel some 3,000 years ago expressed the identity and security he found in God in Psalm 139. Today, let's flip it around and hear it expressed from God's point of view. Hear God say to you...

I am the LORD, I have searched you and I know you.
I know when you sit and when you rise; I perceive your thoughts from afar.
I discern your going out and your lying down; I am familiar with all your ways.
Before a word is on your tongue I know it completely, I am the LORD.

I hem you in--behind and before; I have laid my hand upon you.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for you, too lofty for you to attain.
Where can you go from my Spirit? Where can you flee from my presence?
If you go up to the heavens, I are there; if you make your bed in the depths, I am there.

If you rise on the wings of the dawn, if you settle on the far side of the sea,
even there My hand will guide you, My right hand will hold you fast.

If you say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to Me; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to Me.

For I created your inmost being; I knit you together in your mother's womb.
You are fearfully and wonderfully made--I created you with reverence and was awestruck by you; I hope you'll see my works as wonderful--they are for you.

Your frame was not hidden from Me when you were made in the secret place.
When you were woven together in the depths of the earth, My eyes saw your unformed body.
All the days ordained for you were written in My book before one of them came to be.
My thoughts about you are precious, My child! How vast is the sum of them! Were you to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When you awake, I am still with you.

Let Me search you, My child, and know your heart; Let Me test you and know your anxious thoughts. Let Me see if there is any offensive way in you, and lead you in the way everlasting.
(Psalms 139:1-18, 23-24)

~ Father, help me to see myself through Your eyes. Thank You for creating me with worth and purpose. Lead me to become the person You dream me to be. Amen.