Who Do You Want To Be? 

  

What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father. Henry Blackaby

Have you ever asked yourself who you want to be?  When we are young there is a great deal of focus placed on who we will become later in life.   I often think too much emphasis is placed on who we will become by worldly standards instead of by God’s standards.  If you look at it from a worldly perspective you would see more focus on careers that make more money because as the saying goes, “money makes the world go round”. Or does it? 

Who we become is one of the most important decisions we will ever make in life. So if you are making one of the most important decisions of your life, what would you choose?  Would you choose to become a doctor or lawyer, a journalist or teacher, baker or realtor, mechanic or salesman?  There are an endless number of choices for what we can do in life to make a living.  The difference is in who we are when we are making a living that matters. 

No matter what career you choose, who you are on the inside and who you project on the outside are really the most important choices in this life, not the occupation.  If your motivation in life is to become rich, your life will reflect it.  If your motivation is God, your life will reflect that too. 

What is your occupation?  Are you a janitor at a local school?  God can use you.  Are you a doctor seeing patients every day? God can use you.  Are you a stay at home mom?  God can use you.  God can and will use each one of us for His purpose if we let Him in and let Him lead.  Let go of what the world thinks you should be and become the person God wants you to be.    

Prayer for the Day: Heavenly Father, thank you for reminding me that my worldly title is not as important as what I become on the inside.  When You saved me, the title You gave me is “Child of God” and I want to be the best “Child of God” I can be.  Help me to live up to the title You gave me.    

      

Scripture: There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe.  He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.  That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.  He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.  John 1:6-13