Do you Know Who You Are?

Some people spend a lifetime trying to figure out their destiny. They wander from job-to-job, or sale-to-sale, hoping to feel fulfilled, but in the end, it all falls short. They encounter the same ol’ problems at work and that cute blouse or pair of shoes they purchased, are discarded the following season.

Are you still wondering what life’s about? Who God created you to be? Perhaps you have a calling in your heart but it seems too big, the roadblocks are too great, and no one else embraces your vision.

You are not alone.

One of the greatest Biblical patriarchs who ever lived, Moses, had the same problem.

I used to think Moses did not know his destiny until God revealed it during the burning bush encounter. However, the apostle, Stephen, shared some light on Moses, minutes before he was stoned to death. Stephen’s recap of the Israelites’ history is in Acts 7.

When Moses was still living at Pharaoh’s palace, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. He saw one of the Israelite workers being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense, and avenged him by killing the Egyptian.

Here’s the “aha” moment. Stephen says, “Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.”

Moses knew his destiny before he ran and spent forty years as a sheepherder in Midian? He already understood that he was on this earth to save his people from oppression?

But Moses encountered resistance as he stepped into his calling. One day after he killed the Egyptian, he came across two Israelites who were fighting. When he tried to break the fight up, one of the men pushed Moses and said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us?”

We know the end of the story. Moses would one day be the ruler and judge over the Israelites. God had already placed the calling in his heart, but he let people negate his calling, so he isolated himself for four decades.

What are you passionate about? Do you have unfulfilled dreams?

This blog is not speaking to those with most of their life ahead of them. It is speaking to the 40, 50, and 60 year-olds who feel they have never pressed into their God-given purpose.

In my life, most everyone tried to talk me out of pursuing a sportscasting career. God’s call on my life to attend seminary in my 40’s was considered unorthodox, but my heart said otherwise.

Don’t let others define who you are. Ask God to show you who He created you to be, and embrace it.