I AM

I AM…

So many thoughts fill my mind as these words are spoken. I am a daughter, a wife, a mother, a caregiver, a taxi driver, a bargain hunter, a nurse, a psychiatrist, an organizer and so much more. Happiness and fulfillment are wrapped up in all these things. Yet, I am so many things to so many different people that I feel spent and almost empty at times. I feel I continually search and wonder if this is really all to life. Could there be so much more out there? What else could I be? What else could fill in the blank of “I am…”?

I search the scriptures begging God to talk to me. I beg for His guidance in my life. Pleas are sent somewhere above asking when He’ll let me in on who I need to be. Impatience lurks at every door when I don’t see God moving. I want to jump ahead and fix the circumstance. I see tasks needing to be completed and wonder if it is my calling. There are people hurting to whom I try to comfort. So much of my life is spent trying to figure out who I am. God hasn’t asked me to figure out who I am. First Peter 2:9-10 (NASB) states, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.” Plain and simple, He already knows who I am. I am His chosen.

Why didn’t I see it before? Hard to believe, but my focus is completely wrong. It’s not about who I am, but about who God is. So who is God? He is the Almighty, my protector, my deliverer, my healer, my provider, and my strength. I fill in a new name for God during each circumstance of life. I guess God said it best when He said, “I AM”. He doesn’t need to follow it up with an explanation as we try to do with our lives or as we do to Him. He simple “is” anything and everything we could ever imagine and more. We constantly try to box God in to figure Him out to no avail. Yet, I am God’s chosen.

Lord, help me not box You in today. Help me to treat myself as Your chosen. May I choose to respect myself with my time, money and talents as if I were taking care of Your child; as that is what I truly am. I choose to believe in “I AM”.

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