August 9, 2013 - Will The Real Me Stand Up

Today's devotion is shared from one of my devotionals this morning by Billy Graham. TOOO good not to share. It really ministered to me - maybe you too. We are three people - yikes! The Real You by Billy Graham It is significant that our first astronauts, while being trained for their moon flights, were required to give twenty answers to the query, "Who are you?" Take the same test yourself. When you have made your list and run out of things to add, ask yourself if you have truly answered. Do you really know who you are? Scientists agree that our desperate search leads all humans to seek heroes and to imitate others, to "paste bits and pieces of other people on ourselves." We make love as some actor would. We play golf in the style of Jack Nicklaus. Part of this process is natural, for we learn by imitating others. The tragedy is that the person we assemble is not genuine. "Who am I?" you cry as you roam the world looking for yourself. Consider this: there are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ. I don't know about you, but I want to be the person God knows that I am. The other 2 have human reasoning and emotion mixed into their character base. "God help me to be the best I can be today and the person you designed me to be!" And, I really need to hear from you if you're coming Sunday evening at 6. Have a great day, PK