Monday, April 30, 2007

who am I

One of Father's purposes in leading me through the pain of a broken marriage has been to show me my true identity. Who am I? What defines me? My physical appearance? My ethnicity and nationality? My family and friends? My religion and politics? My career? My balance sheet? People's opinions of me? Although all of the preceding categories can be used to describe me, there is one answer that supersedes them all in defining who I am - I am His! The song below illustrates this in a beautiful way -

Who Am I

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

Chorus:
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours

Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love and watch me rise again
Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me

I am Yours
Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear
'Cause I am Yours
I am Yours

Written by Mark Hall
Music by Casting Crowns
Song based on Psalms 52 and 139 and Ephesians 2

Live free! Live in Daddy's affection!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW!! I'VE HARD THAT SONG SO MANY TIMES..BUT READING THOSE LYRICS WAS SUCH AN ENORMOUS BLESSING!! THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME REMEMBER WHO HE IS!! KEEP LOOKING UP!! GOD HASN'T LEFT U AND I PROMISE U HE NEVER WILL!!

Anonymous said...

What a profound statement of who we really are... That really says it, doesn't it? The real deal. The rest is dust in the wind, blowing off/away like so much chaff.

Yet I so often focus on the other descriptors of me and others, to my great loss. May I count that loss a gain as I turn to Him again and see as He sees--through His eyes of compassion--an accurate vision of the world as seen through His proifound, amazing, mind-blowing love. A world He loves, including and even me. A world He calls me to love and serve, looking at what is REAL and true about it. Right now the most real and true thing I can think of is God and His great love. Words can't describe...

"Amazing love, how can it be... that you my King would die for me... amazing love, I know it's true, it's my joy to honor you..." Yet "who am I" that I even factor into this... it's a great mystery, this amazing love for you and me...

Thanks for this post... :-)