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Monday, March 15th, 2010
In this post-modern/post-Christian/post-something world, many of us are on a quest for self-discovery. We want to know who we are and what our purpose is. Many of us also want to do this on our own.
Since many of us long to be unique, it makes sense that we look inside ourselves. However, getting to know our inner-self is not the answer to finding our own identities: getting to know God is.
It is only through looking at God (and living in relationship with Him) that we realize who we really are. The first thing we notice is this: what God is, we are not. God is holy. God is good. Most importantly to me, He is full of unconditional love. I don’t know about anyone else, but I am definitely not any of these things.
If we keep looking into God, however, we begin to realize who we are. We are made in His image. We were made with a purpose. We were made to be in a relationship with Him. We were made to love and be loved.
If we look anywhere else for our identity and purpose, we worship idols and lose out on the love God wants to share with us. As Madeleine L’Engle said in Walking on Water, when we turn away from God we invent “little gods who have eyes and see not, ears and hear not, hands and touch not, and who have nothing to say to us in the times of our deepest need.”
We are never really seen, heard, touched, or understood until we know the God who truly sees us in our human state, hears our cries of pain and joy, touches us with His Son, and embraces us in His understanding. We have no sense of who we are, or what we are to do, until we come into relationship with the God who made us.
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