Who Am I

When we were younger, we use to play a game we called "Who am I?"  Sometimes we would imitate celebrities, super heroes, or friends.  It was always fun. 

That said, my husband and I were travelling to Fredericksburg a couple of weeks ago and I heard a Tejano Music Singer that was a "blast from the past."  His name is Ram Hererra.  This was an individual all the ladies followed in the 80's and wow did they ever follow him.

You can imagine my surprise when I heard him singing a song on K-LOVE radio.  The song he sang was Who Am I made popular by Casting Crowns.  I was very surprised that this individual would be singing it based on the past but it was proof that God extends mercy and grace to everyone.

Usually when I post, it is something that is on my heart at that moment.  Today's post is different.  I heard that song a couple of weeks ago.  Today, while I was looking through some books I found an old church bulletin.  It was dated March 10th, 2007 and guess what the series name was....Who am I.  It recall the pastor handing out name tags and allowing the members to write in who they were.  I still have mine glued to my old bible it says "Hello, my name is...." and based on that morning's sermon the name I wrote in was protected.

We may go around in life wearing name tags that read "Hello, my name is depressed, anger, bitterness, failure, or ugly only because that's the way we feel about ourself.  We may have several name tags with several different names simply based on the idea that we can not believe God would see us as worthy.

Perhaps that morning someone overlooked us or maybe that morning someone angered us or perhaps that morning, we were still carrying the pain of a failure. 

I have to tell you, those things may happen but you don't have to stay there!  God truly values you as His child and He believes you were created for greatness.  We are the ones that hold us back.  Our issues, our insecurities, our self esteem.  God created us...why would we not know who we are?

If our boss came to us and said "We are promoting you to Supervisor" I doubt that we would ask "why."
I would ask "When does it take effect?"  I would  venture to guess that we would not ask why because most of us know we are hard workers and we deserve it. 

In preparing this, I  thought of Moses.  That Moses! When God called him to lead the people out of Egypt, Moses asked God "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" [Exodus 3:11] Moses' question was one that perhaps was indicative of inadequacy,  insufficient training, or potential to fail.

In 2 Samuel 7, God is telling David all that He will do for him:

• I took you from the pasture and from following the flock to be ruler over my people Israel
• I have been with you wherever you have gone
• I have cut off your enemies from before you
• Now, I will make your name great

That is overwhelming.  All the goodness of God come to him at once and you know what David asks?  Who Am I...that you have brought me this far?

I go to the lyrics of the Casting Crown Song:

Who am I that the Lord of all the earth would care to know my name and would care to feel my hurt.

I sincerely believe the answer to that question lives in the chorus:

Not because of who I am but because of what you've done, not because of what you've done but because of who you are. 

So I  can ask all day long "Who Am I?" but in the end, like David, I am a child of the most high God.  It is an honor to receive the blessings and promises that go along with being that child.  Like Ram Herrera,  I might question why God would "consider" me and I might ask "Who am I that you would care" but in the end, it's more about who HE is! 

Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and he said "Who am I, O Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?  Ans as if this were not enough in your sight, O Soverign Lord, yo uhave also spoken about the future of the house of your servant, Is this your usual way of dealing with man, O Sovereign Lord?  O Sovereign Lord, you are God! Your words are trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant.  2 Samuel 7:18-20 & 28

(C) Who Am I, Casting Crown Lyrics http://www.sing365.com/