Who or What Defines You?

Sorry,

This is not me posting Pelumi's Memoirs. I'm also not here to talk about Nollywood or the happenings around it.

I want you to answer the question, "who or what defines you"?

Let's take a step back and see what the Bible says in Psalm 82 verse 6. The psalmist says here, "I have said you are gods and all of you are children of the Most High God".  We see two things here:

1. You are a god

2. You are a child of the Most High God

Let's move forward with our discussion. We'll revisit this later.

Society has many labels. Tons and tons of labels by which people and circumstances are labeled. We can start listing them, but I guess you already know them.

In fact, well meaning people unconsciously have these labels as well by which they label people. Society has a mold and sometimes, you just don't fit in that mold. What happens next is you begin to feel excluded. You begin to feel like an outsider. Something also happens as exclusion means you now begin to have a need for validation. "What do they think about me"? "What do they think about my circumstance"? "If only I could prove them wrong"....

It becomes an unending battle in the mind.

And what if you cannot prove them wrong? Shame sets in. Reproach may also set in accompanied by confusion. 

"But I was meant to be more than this, I was born for much more than this". Self doubt also begins to creep in to join the myriad of emotions you have begun to feel or been battling with. "Will things ever change"? "Will my situation ever change"?  Do you notice an identity crisis here? 

Who created you? They? Them? The others? Who has the blue print of your life? The owner's manual? Them? Who has the final authority over your life? Again, I ask? Them? 

In Ecclesiastes 10 verse 5, King Solomon laments about a situation, an evil of sorts under the sun. Servants were riding on horses and Princes were walking on foot like servants. Talk about a major identity crises!

The challenge you are faced with now, those mountains that seem insurmountable are there to test your faith. They are there to challenge your identity as a god. The challenges are there to question your identity as a Child of the Most High God.

Again, who are you? Let me tell you something. The words of the late Archbishop Benson Idahosa -
"If your faith says yes, God cannot say no"!

God your father is observing the events of your life like he was observing the events of the life of Job. The cloud of witnesses in heaven is rooting for you even as you walk through this wilderness experience.

And just in case you feel like you have wandered in the wilderness for too long and time has gone by. In case you feel like all hope is lost, Joel 2:25 has a word for you. God promises to restore the years the locust, the caterpillar, the palmerworm , the canker worm and the grasshopper have eaten. Hey you!!! Rejoice! The tide is going to turn.

Lastly, remember the Words of Isaiah 60 verse 1

"Arise, shine for your light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you". Rise up from the ashes, oh ye Sons and Daughters of Zion. Get up from the dust! Toss those labels aside. They are not yours! Did your father in heaven pin those labels on you?

And finally, remember the words of Jesus -

"Peace, I leave with you. My peace I give unto you "...

Because your maker knows you'll need peace to carry you. Your feet must be shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

Shalom!