Just Who Am I?

There is an app, well more than one, that allows you to send your name to it and it will come back with a description of you and/or your character. I just read one that told a woman her name says that she is a force of nature armed with intelligence not to be messed with. This character reference was arrived at by sending in her name. 

I started to send my name, but stopped immediately. The Holy Ghost quickened wintin me and the thought in my mind was that I don't want to be realized by a canned response to who I am or what I am. I WANT TO BE KNOWN BY WHO GOD SAYS I AM! 

Man cannot know me the way God does. Man will judge and determine who I am by the outside appearance and sometimes what they see me do or not do. The machine can only determine who I am by what some person at some time put in it pertaining to certain aspects it gets from me. What I give it. BUT God sees me on the inside. Where my true character grows from. The part of ME that exists as I build upon what He put there when He created me as a baby in the womb. 

I heard a guy once say in retaliation to a rebuke for what he was doing, "God made me this way". Not true. God did/does create us, a living, breathing, flesh. But God allows us to choose our path, our way, our character. We build us as we grow. How we turn out is not only influenced by what we choose to follow or not, but also, by how we choose to live, even the way we treat each other. We build our character; who we are is our creation within ourselves. 

I don't want to use an app to tell me who I am, or what I am. I want God to help me mold myself into what He already knows I can be. I want to be known by others as they see God in me. 

Pastor Perkins preached Sunday about how often a married couple will begin to look like each other. The longer they are together, the more they resemble each other. 

I want to look like, to act like, and become the image(inside and out) of God who is the only one that can show or tell me just who I am!

Who am I acting like? Get in the presence of God! Stop acting like you have to invite Him into your presence, He is already there waiting for you to get in tune. To realize and recognize Him. 

Dear God, I humbly ask that you forgive me of all sin. I ask that your sweet Holy Spirit guide me to be in your likeness and take on your character. Thank you God. Amen