Who am I?
The soul-searching question that many ask themselves and few are able to answer. Scientifically we know that our past actions and surroundings play a part in who we are at present, and our actions now change our future. We are genetically set up from birth to look a certain way, to have a distinct personality, to become a specific person.
But how can we sum up in just a few words the complexity of human nature? Is there one word that is capable of capturing past, present, future, mistakes and failures, hopes and dreams?
I WAS so young and unsoiled. I loved nothing more than to enter the magical lands of my books or to create worlds of my own. I believed in fairies and truly thought Peter Pan would come for me one day. The world was good. Life was beautiful.
But through years of sickness and hardship I became hardened and afraid. An insatiable depression swallowed me alive, burying my hopes and dreams in its inky despair. I would lay in bed and not even have the energy to cry. I didn’t dream anymore – my daytime imaginations had dried up and turned sour, and the only dreams I’d have at night were nightmares.
Only by the power of Christ did I come out from under that weight of Darkness. His Grace poured over me, cool and sweet, soothing the crack and sores of y spirit. He lifted me out of sickness and despair and set me in a safe place. Trials of life still reach me, and sometimes drag me down. But I face them stronger and wiser than before. On days I fall back into the trap of hopelessness, I know there is a way out, a place of Salvation. I AM alive!
So it is there, in Him (my Savior) that my hope for the future rests. One day I would like to have a husband to call on and children of my own. I would love to publish my writings (nonsensical scribbles though they may be). I want to go into ministry and pour into the lives of others. But all of that comes after and through One Person – MY HOPE – Jesus.
We move, we change, we love, we hurt, we stumble our way through life trying the best we know how. Each one of us is so different, strange and complex. But we share one thing, the one word that encompasses our lives, troubles, mistakes, hopes and dreams – who we were, are, hope to be.
We are HUMAN.
Above is a writing assignment I completed a few weeks ago, and I was fairly pleased with the way it turned out. We were supposed to analyze ourselves – who we were, are, and hope to be. I tell the story, vague as it is, of my life. I became a Christ follower when I was very young, but only just a few years ago did I learn to love and rely on that Christ as my best friend. This is my story. This is me.
And this is the story of all of us. We are human. Human nature is not a bad thing, no. We are created by a Great and Powerful God in His image, just the way He’d have us. It is our SIN nature that drags us down and causes us to be less than He intended. Yet we find REDEMPTION from all in the pure and beautiful Savior – Jesus Christ.
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Life's Destination 