Who am I?

Do you ever ask this question? Like what really defines you? I do, and I have to admit that without occasional personal evaluation, it would change. I can get distracted and change my focus fairly easily, and without checking on what is guiding me I can get off track.

I want to head in one direction: to be inside the will of God being used to my fullest potential and I want to do the most with the talents God has given me. OK, that sounds great…singularly focused and intentional, but to be completely honest, I struggle with this. “Is this God’s will? Or this? Or this?” I wonder from time to time if I am going in the right direction at all.

Am I alone in this? Sometimes you do not know you are heading in the wrong direction until you get to where you think you wanted to be…then it hits you: “This is not where I wanted to be…” “This is not the life I had planned?” “This is not…(you fill in the blank)”. Or maybe you have gotten to where you wanted to go and there seems to be something missing?

That is me…and I struggle with it all the time. The only difference is that now I am looking at a different map, and with a different purpose in mind. Look what Paul says our purpose is:

“For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)

I want this…heck I need this, and I believe there is a way to get it, and it is never too late. The Enemy wants us to be distracted and too busy to focus on God, and then he wins by default. But that is not the life God desires for anyone. God has a plan for everyone, a plan to use us in ways we would never believe possible. You interested?

Then what are you willing to do about it? Proof is in what you do, not intended to or wanted to...