You Are Who God Made You If You Are Pleasing Him

As believers we are taught the importance of knowing who we are made by God to be as well as to identify and fulfill one’s purpose in Christ. Though this sounds simple, it has become the bane of many a believer because it raises a major issue in their minds of identifying who they are meant to be even giving some an identity crisis. Some of us struggle so hard to know who we should be and have, in the process, lost a lot of time being and doing nothing. This uncertainty has made some of us insecure and unsure as to whether or not we are acting the part God called us to when we indeed are. Knowing who one is, is obviously a burden to many in this present day to the extent that it is now the preoccupation of many and it ought not to be so. Identifying who you are and fulfilling purpose is important; it is liberating and even eliminates competition among believers eliminating the tendency for ugly emotions like envy etc yet we do not struggle to know it.

1 Peter 4: 1b - 2 “For if you have suffered physically for Christ, you have finished with sin. You won’t spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.”

As one does the will of God, they are who God made them. To be who God made you is to live pleasing God and not a state we strive or struggle to attain. It is who we become just by desiring sincerely to and actually pleasing Him. Fullness of joy, a benefit tied to the extent of one’s submission to God, marks everyone who is being who God made them and is not tied to what one has or does not have. Our struggle must never be to identify and be that person but rather to live the life that God desires for us to live. As we live that God ordained life, we will be who He called us to be at every point in time fulfilling purpose or destiny and being a true blessing. It is living such that God can through you accomplish His purpose on earth; leave it to Him to decided what purpose He desires to accomplish through you. He knows your frame more than you do because He made you; only yield.

2 Timothy 2: 21 “If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use for every good work.”

People find it so much easier to label one. Their life is easier if you are stereotyped so they can deal with you according to their understanding. Please don’t make that your issue by taking on their definition of you and trying to remain that person. We are consistently unfolding and you must allow yourself unfold so you can be fit for the Master’s use at every point in time. It is not as important to be labeled as it is to be useful to God. People had the same challenge with Jesus; He could not be put in a box. The only sure thing about Him was that you knew He always did the will of God. He represented God’s desire at all times despite that it often cost Him; His personality was constantly changing; no wonder people marveled at him: yet this is true liberty and not drinking of alcohol or doing unseemly things.

Mathew 14: 8 – 9 “At her mother’s urging, the girl said, ‘I want the head of John the Baptist on a tray! Then the king regretted what he had said; but because of the vow he had made in front of his guests, he issued the necessary orders”.

Herod wanted to be that man he had been labeled as, "a man that kept his word at whatever cost" and that, even at the expense of displeasing God. It cost him dearly. The only label we should have is that we are "God pleasers". Man unfolds as his walk with God deepens; you must allow yourself be who you ought to be at all times. Don't, for example, remain quiet when you should speak up because you are referred to as “the quiet one:” you may be God’s mouthpiece at that point in time. You are respected for being honored enough by God to be used of him and not necessarily because of you. It is okay to keep changing as long as it is in alignment with the word of God and the nudging of the Holy Spirit. You don't need to be “super spiritual or spooky” to be who God made you to be; all you need to do is allow yourself be yielded to God.