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“If you want to discover who you really are, seek God.”

A thought by Mark Batterson from his book, Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God (p. 140). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

We want so much to know who we are.  We take all of those tests and they do help, they really do, God uses them but to really know we must seek God.

Mark says, “God knows you better than you know you. Not only did He knit you together in your mother’s womb, but He has prepared good works in advance with your name on them (Ephesians 2:10).  If you want to discover who you really are, seek God.”

He goes on, “Author and speaker Sir Ken Robinson hails from Liverpool, England, the same hometown as Sir Paul McCartney. One day as they were comparing notes, Sir Ken discovered that Sir Paul hadn’t performed very well in his musical studies. His high school teacher didn’t give him good marks and didn’t even notice any innate talent. Amazing, right? But it gets even better! George Harrison, lead guitarist for the Beatles, had the same teacher. And he didn’t fare any better than McCartney. ‘Let me get this straight,’ Ken said to Paul. ‘This teacher had half of the Beatles in his classes and didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary?

Mark then says, “Part of the genius of Jesus was His ability to see potential in unlikely places and unlikely people. Where others saw problems, Jesus spied potential.

“Remember what the Pharisees said when a prostitute crashed their party? ‘If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.’(Luke 7:39) That’s half-true. A prophet certainly perceives present-tense realities. Jesus knew exactly who she was, but He also saw who she could become. And He treated her accordingly.”

“’If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is,’ said Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ‘But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.’”

And that is how God treats us.  He even sent Jesus, his Son to earth to live and then die so that we could become who we were meant to be.

So, do you really want to discover who you really are?
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