My Identity

What am I good at? What are some of my talents? In today's society what you are good at defines you. If you are good at basketball you are the "star athlete." If you are good at school you are the “super-smart kid.” It is believed that to be someone in this world, you must have an identity in what you do, and be successful with it. I have been called a lot of things in my life, and have been identified by a lot of things. All are important to me, and all are a part of me. I love to play basketball, I love to read, I love to lead, and I am good at school. I have been called that star athlete and that super-smart kid. While I have many identities, first and foremost I am a child of God. I want to be a person who is so strong in Him that I am
I let my talents define who I was, and I used a false self so that I could fit in with the world around me. It was a full time job to make sure the world saw me as successful and good at what I do. After a long arduous struggle, I started to learn that this life isn’t about how the world sees me, but about being so rooted in my identity in Christ, that people can see me and know, ”there’s a light that shines in her, and shines onto people around her.” It is a constant struggle to not let my talents and gifts define me, I fight that battle every single day. The only way I am able to fight that battle, is because of my relationship with Jesus Christ. If I tried to “do the right thing,” or be good all by myself I would fail miserably. I still fail miserably, but there is good out of it. I grow, I learn, and I know that no matter how bad I screw up I am still loved by God. I can screw up, and then screw up some more, but I get that chance the next day, and the day after that. I am slowly learning that this life is not about how I can make myself look, or what I can do to further my life. This life is about doing for others, and serving