Who am I

Who am I? How can I find myself?  

This pair of questions obviously constitutes one of the most recurrent and the less solved equations a human being has to face. They are perhaps the most important questions one has to answer. It seems that finding who you truly are gives you the key to a happy, stable and valuable life. In fact, how could you possibly be stable in life when an imperfect person you do not know or understand is mysteriously guiding your everyday steps?  How can you understand and help others with whom you deal so little when you can’t understand your own self you deal with 24/7? More important, how can others understand and help you?  It is thus of a great interest to know who you are!

You can’t truly say you know who you are

Have you never felt you are a stranger to yourself? Don’t you feel the need to know a little bit more about the mystery of your person?

You might have done significant steps in this search and you think you know more about yourself than most of the people do, but can you honestly say you know everything about yourself? Don’t you think there is still much to discover? Finding oneself is not just a matter of a deep introspection, a profound search within you to understand who you really are. I guess you just don’t search for an unknown something in an unknown somewhere!

It would take eternity to find out how and why your spirit and soul interact with the 40 000 billion cells of your body to produce such and such behavior of yours. It would be an impossible task to understand how each one the 5 000 billion chemical reactions happening in your brain every single second shape your thought process, or to do the combinatory analysis of your 50 000 hereditary characters influenced by your developmental process to find out who you truly are!

Even if today you think you know who you are, could you bet you will remain the same person tomorrow?  Human beings change a lot – the circumstances of life make them do so. You just never know what the future holds for you. You cannot possibly foresee all the impacts of present and future happenings in your life on the kind of person you will become tomorrow. You do not master what is going to happen to you in the next minutes and the influence it is going to have on your person!

So many joyful, loving and happy persons have sunk in so much bitterness and hatred because of some event in their life! Reciprocally, yesterday’s mourners, haters have experienced a 180 turn around. Some do not more like the job they once were in love with. Others do not more enjoy the hobbies in which they found delight in the past. It is a fact that people just change. I remember during the GOP primaries for the 2016 US presidential elections, in a debate involving all republican candidates, then candidate Donald Trump stuck it to Governor Jeb Bush that his campaign was a big failure. At the start of the campaign, Governor Bush was leading the pools. However, latest surveys showed he was quickly declining quickly. In response, Governor Jeb gave a statement which I will paraphrase here: “people have a tendency to make up their minds late”. What he meant was that voters were going to switch their vote intentions from whoever was leading the pools then to him. My point here is not to say that it is a good or a bad thing to switch a vote, I simply want to hammer the argument that it is not only a recognized fact that people change, but others count on it, even in the highest spheres.
In the light of the above, could you confidently say you know who you are?

Finding oneself is a matter of becoming

Truly finding yourself requires that you consider that the original ‘you’ should not depend of the circumstances around you. It is rather a unique person that would not allow to be broken by the most rushing wind or the mightiest storm. It’s a person heavily empowered to victoriously face every situation. This leads to the understanding that there is an absolute model of ‘you’, that cannot be changed by the happenings in your life. Finding yourself resumes then to seeking this model, becoming this person, the person you were meant to be!

How can you then find yourself?

As previously stated, becoming the person you were meant to be demands that you find this person in who there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. The Bible[1] describes God as the 

Father of lights with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning James 1:17 

What a coincidence! Actually, there is no coincidence here! The reason, the Bible[2] tells us that God created us in his image.

Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”  Genesis 1:26

He said, when he decided to create man. The real ‘you’ is a God made, a God looking like person who, when restored in you, is going to turn you a lovely, loving, strong, unshakable, unbreakable, happy person, a gift to the world.

Sin is responsible of the destruction of God’s image in you. Sin, simply defined – as I remember from our Sunday School classes, is everything you do that does not please God. Sin has the better over the person you are now. Let’s see what the Bible[3] says about this:  

“For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.  So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.”
Romans 7:15-24

Can you picture yourself through these words? Then you can cry with Paul:

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?“
Romans 7:24

The good news for you today (the scoop of your life) is that Jesus has the power to deliver you from the law of sin and death. He is the[4]

“Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” John 1:29

The scripture we read a while ago goes on[5] :

“Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord … For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” Romans 7:25, 8:2

Jesus has the power to restore the image of God in you, to make you become the person you were meant to be. With Jesus in the equation, then starts an incredible journey of finding your genuine self. He is the only one in whom and through whom you can truly find yourself, for[6]

“In Him we live, and move, and have our being … ‘We are his offspring’ ” Acts 17:28

You can enter into this new life today – right now. You just need to recognize you are a sinner, ask the Lord Jesus to forgive you and invite him in your life. This would mean giving your life to Jesus, making Him the Master of your life, and deciding to live for Him and Him alone. If you are willing to do so now and you are sincere about it, this is a suggested prayer:

Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank for you came to take away my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the person You want me to be”


[1] James 1 : 17
[2] Genesis 1 : 26
[3] Romans 7 : 15 - 24
[4] John 1 : 29
[5] Romans 8 : 2
[6] Acts 19 : 28

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