Who Are You?

 

Many people can come with an answer right now…but others–they are searching.

 

And for some of us…that simple question is a painful one.

 

None of us want to “go through the motions”….to walk through our life each day without purpose or meaning…but if you are like me–you sometimes do just that.

 

Many years ago, my brother-in-law showed up at our house with a puppy….a Walker Hound.  My children took to him immediately and set out to take him on a walk around the neighborhood and to the park.

 

About a half an hour later, my kids returned and told me the dog would simply not get up.  All he would do was lay on the ground and sleep….

 

I had a hard time believing that a Hound Dog would be so lazy and not want to run and bark…so I was curious and went to see the dog.  Sure enough….he was the laziest dog I had ever seen.  We could pull him on the leash and he would go two steps and, literally, lay down and go to sleep.  He would not walk.  He would not pick his head up.  He would not even open his eyes…..and this was not a one day thing.  This was WHO HE WAS…..

As I talked to my brother in law he told me that this dog was the runt of the litter and that:

  • He was lazy.
  • He was sleepy.
  • He had no energy.
  • He was like this—ALL THE TIME.

 

And this dog was even worse when he was put on a leash.  You would have to PULL HIM and he would not follow…..

 

Then one day my brother in law was at the lake and he put the scent of raccoon in front of the dog’s nose….and he came to life.  He jumped up and began to bark, then ran OVER the other dogs to get on the trail of that raccoon…. the next I saw him, my brother in law had a raccoon in a live trap…..and this “lazy dog” had done it.

In one moment, that dog had discovered who he was.

 

Who Are You?

 

YOU….Are God’s WORKMANSHIP.

 

Ephesians 2:10  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

 

Read that verse until it sticks.  You are His workmanship.

 

You are His work of art…His prized product….His son, His daughter.  Look at the mountains, the blue sky, the rainbow, the sunset, the ocean as it crashes into the rocks.  These are His great creation….But YOU—YOU—are His workmanship, created IN Christ Jesus to do good works that He has prepared for you.

 

And until you begin to walk in that identity—you are no different than that hound dog….asleep.

 

The enemy will spend all of his days planting thoughts about who you are that will discourage and distract.  The enemy wants you to be just like that dog, and he will continually pound into your identity….using “runt”, “lazy”, “asleep”, and any other words that he can put over you…….and the enemy also loves words like:

Failure

Quitter

Loser

 

It is his hope that he can get you to lose your dreams, to not believe that God can use you, to get you to “go through the motions”…….

 

The enemy knows that when you walk without the knowledge of WHO YOU ARE….you are no different than that dog…..

Asleep.

Trying to grab an energy that isn’t there.

On a leash.

Lifeless.

 

But what if you began to believe that He means what He says?  What if you believed that you were, in fact, His WORKMANSHIP?

  • It would give you permission to dream again….because He is the God of dreams.
  • It would give you permission to cry out and find who you are…..because He is not a God of mediocrity.
  • It would give you permission to realize that He is proud of the work He has done IN MAKING YOU…..because He is a God who has a plan for your life.

 

When you find your purpose….you become ALIVE.

 

Cry out that you would find out WHO you are …. And start by facing the truth….that you are His WORKMANSHIP……

 

God never intended for you to be bored.

He never intended for you to go through the motions.

He never intended for you to get through the day.

 

God’s plan for you is going to be harder than you thought it might be…..but it is also going to be exhilerating, and life-changing, and purpose-filled.

 

He wants you to walk in a freedom you have never known, doing things you never thought you could do, and living a life that you never thought you could….

 

You are His greatest prize……and He wants to show you off to the world.

 

In The Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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