Who am I?

"What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?" Psalm 8:4 (NIV)

"Just as a father has compassion of his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him, for He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust." Psalm 103:13-14 (NASB)

"How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand..." Psalm139:17-18a (NASB)

Who am I that the Lord of the universe would think of me and yet, in Psalm 139, David proclaims that God's thoughts toward us are vast and would outnumber the sand! Okay! I would ask, "The sand on one shore or all the shores in the world??" And God would laugh and say, "Does it really matter? Can you count the sand on even one shore?" He would also tell me that I ask too many questions!

When I would answer the question, "Who am I?" I would more than likely say, "I'm nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody, too?" (Emily Dickinson)or "A voice crying in the wilderness" (John the Baptist). But mostly I feel like these words from Eugene Peterson's book, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction ring true:

"The person of faith is not a person who has been born, luckily, with a good digestion and sunny disposition. The assumption by outsiders that Christians are naive or protected is the opposite of the truth: Christians know more about the deep struggles of life than others, more about the ugliness of sin...

We speak our words of praise in a world that is hellish; we sing our songs of victory in a world where things get messy; we live our joy among people who neither understand nor encourage us. But the content of our lives is God, not humanity. We are not scavenging in the dark alleys of the world, poking in its garbage cans for a bare subsistence. We are traveling in the light, toward God who is rich in mercy and strong to save. It is Christ, not culture, that defines our lives. It is the help we experience, not the hazards we risk, that shapes our days." And I would add, answers the question, "Who am I?"

John says, "We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." 1 John 4:16 (NASB) When we begin to understand the love a parent has for a child, then we also begin to scratch the surface of God's love for us. As it says in 1 John 3:1, "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him." God has lavished His love on us! What is our worth to Him? "What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?" Romans 8:31-32 (NASB)

"But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." Lamentations 3:21-23 (ESV) The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases to amaze me!

Who am I? I am His...

Dear Lord, I love You and I am so thankful that You love me...Thank you that You gave Your Son that I might know who I am in You.