In looking at our futures and at our accomplishments we can sometimes be discouraged or unhappy with who we are or where we are at.
At times we may want to change who we are or what we are to reach a goal, to impress someone or just to blend in.
This can be anything from getting a new haircut to create a new look or putting on an act in a job interview. It can be acting or speaking like someone else to be accepted or simply thinking that you are not good enough as you are.
But really, we should simply be ourselves, and be proud of it.
Don’t get me wrong though, change is good and healthy. It is a part of growing up, but it should never contradict who we are fundamentally or lead us away from God and who he created us to be.
God wants us to be the best that we can be, that he created us to be. We were created with gifts, talents and a personality divinely chosen. It is good to strive to fulfil this in our lives.
We do not need to seek to change who we are. Rather, we should seek to remove the things in our life that block God’s Grace and Love from reaching us. This is anything that gets in the way of Jesus working in your life.
When we do this and embrace our gifts, we can become a channel of Grace and Love for others.
“God wants to reach out to others through your hands. He wants to speak to others through your lips, and God wants others to look into your eyes and see Him… Give God Permission”
-John Cardinal O’Connor
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them”
Ephesians 2:10
Be content with who you are and who you were made to be.
“Christians believes that God designed and created the world as an artist creates a painting or composes a melody” -C.S Lewis
How do we do this? How do we be content in who we have been created to be?
Pray.
Pray about what you are good at, what you are passionate about. Pray about what makes you tick, what makes you happy and what gets you fired up.
Bring all of these to the Lord and let him lead you where you are meant to go – seek how you are best meant to use your gifts to glorify God and to serve others.
“Each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms”
-1 Peter 4:10
Today I really encourage you to be happy and content with who you have been created to be. I encourage you to seek to use that for the good of the world and the Church rather than seeking to change who you are to become what the world demands of you.
The world needs you at your God-given best, not someone else’s idea of your best.
Pay attention to your Creator over your critics.
George MacDonald sums it up pretty well:
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking”
God Bless,
City on a Hill
