Who are we? Who are you? Who am I?

I hope you are blessed and encouraged by the blogs and other social media I am regularly posting each day.  As much as that is my hope, it is a joy to be able to engage in the lives of people.  I was so surprised that as I was reviewing some analytical information from the website that there was someone in Singapore who had accessed a blog from last year.  As surprised as I was, I was also so quickly humbled.  That God would use me in someone’s life and in this case on the other side of the world.  Thank you Lord.

Who are we?  Who are you?  Who am I?  These are questions people ask daily all over the world.  The one in Singapore or Atlanta, the one at work or in the classroom trying to think of what they will do with their life.  It is also someone who is looking for something but just doesn’t know what it might be.

That who are we question in a universal one.  We ask this question when we are considering the totality of mankind.  It is asking how we got here, what are we doing and what happens after this life.  It makes no difference where you are located or how old you are we all ask this question.  Some ask and never find the answer, sadly when the answer is really an easy one to answer.

The who are you question is more personal.  It delves into a more specific and known existence.  It is the not the where did I come from but it is where was I born, who are my parents, who are my ancestors.  The most elementary part of this is the where was I born question.  Where one is born can and does have a direct correlation to how they might act or think in the most general way.  Parents and ancestors play a huge part in answering the who am I question.  Elaine has and is still today mesmerized by the topic of genetics.  So much of how we feel and even appear are a result of our genetics.

It is the who am I question where the rubber hits the road.  We each make up our minds as to this question.  All the other things mentioned have their own effect, but it is each individual who decides who they will be.  All the other things can and will have their part, but you decide who you are each day.

Think about it this way though.  If life were easy anyone could do it, but life isn’t easy.  Never has been and never will be for any one of us.  The Christian life is as hard as any other, but it is the only one that provides peace in the midst of chaos.  The only one that gives a guiding force and unmeasured assurance in times of trouble.  Ultimately answering the where do we go from here question.  That place we often refer to as Heaven which is with God.  The creator and the curator of the life we live both now and forever.

As idealistic as all of that is there is a thing called sin that separates us from God.  If you will remember it was Jesus who said in John 3:16 NKJV that-

“…God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

As we look around this world, it is not hard to see that mankind is not loving Him back.  Whole groups of people who deny Him and worship other gods.  Paul was in Athens and observed a people who acknowledged and even worshipped all kinds of gods.  Honoring them with statues even one to the unknown god.  He then preached and revealed to them who the unknown god was and He preached Him to them and the way to Him was through Jesus Christ.

The history of man since the beginning of time has shown that man runs away from God and His Son.  We spend countless times condemning things all around us.  You might say that that is what we do as people.  Here, there and everywhere and it makes no difference who or where you are or who your parents or even ancestors were. So, God had to do even more and Jesus said in the next verse-

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”

God has never stopped loving this world and we who are in it since the beginning.  You may think that there is no way for you, but you are wrong.  In John14:6 NKJV Jesus said-

… “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

I don’t know where you are right now, but I know God loves you.  If you know Him through His Son Jesus Christ, then know He has provided you His Holy Spirit to guide and comfort you everyday.  He is always there and you can call out in prayer at any time.

If you don’t know Him today, then this is the right time to ask Jesus into your life.  Romans 10:9-10 NKJV Paul wrote-

“that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Who are we?  Who are you?  Who am I?  All three are universal questions.  More than that they are questions for you to ponder in your life.

In God’s Grace,

Elbert Nasworthy

In God's Grace,

Elbert Nasworthy