Who Am I, Really?

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (ESV)

Okay, so right in the middle of whatever’s going on in your life at the moment, let me ask you – what’s the point of your life? Is there some great purpose, some meaning, some calling … or will your life just drift along and eventually, fizzle out? Well?

One of the most perplexing questions that each of us faces at some point is this: Who am I? What’s the point? What was I made to do? Where do I fit in?

Deep down, we all hunger for meaning and purpose. So at some point as life’s bubbling along with all its twists and turns, ups and downs, something inside us wants to stand back and ask those higher-order questions – questions of meaning and purpose.

And at that point it’s all too easy to go looking for answers in all the wrong places, so the image that we build of ourselves, the understanding that we have of who we are and where we fit into the bigger scheme of things can become twisted and distorted. And that one thing right there has ruined … is ruining … many a life.

I spent the first thirty-six years of my life not really knowing who I was and what I was good at. And so instead, I set about making lots of money. I was well down that path when this sense of purposelessness, this desperate emptiness, almost drove me over the edge – quite literally.

Fortunately, it was on that ledge that Jesus found me. It was in that place that He spoke His meaning and purpose for my life into my heart.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (ESV)

You are His workmanship, handcrafted with the purpose that He’s always had in mind for you.

That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.