Do What You Were Made To DO

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about who I am or more importantly who I am supposed to be. I have the awesome privilege of being a student at Moody Bible Institute and get to take a lot of in depth classes. One of these classes is one leadership and through the exercises it has forced me to really think about who I am supposed to be in Christ. On top of that this week is Founders Week at MBI, which means a bunch of top notch Bible teachers come in for a week and speak on a variety of topics. One of my favorite messages I had the chance to listen to this week was from Chip Ingram, a pastor of a church in California, and he did a phenomenal job speaking on this subject.

With all this coming from different angles on the same subject I think God has been trying to teach me what it means to be who He made me to be. You will never be more attractive or a better person than when you are who God has made you to be.  In Romans 12:3 it speaks on this issue of being the who that God made you to be.

“For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment”.  

What do you think about yourself? Most preachers will translate this to mean thinking of yourself greater than what you are, which is a common mistake we humans make, but I believe the principle in this passage is not to think about yourself higher, or lower, than you actually are. To think soberly is to see yourself as God sees you, this is the true you. I am afraid that some people will get to heaven and realize that they spent their whole lives trying to be someone that they are not. You will never be a better person than when you are doing what God has made you to do. You may be good at other stuff, you may be great and very gifted, but if you are not in the exact spot where God wants you than you will not find satisfaction.

It is so important that we take the time to seek the Lord on this subject because if you don’t understand how you fit into the puzzle of life than your whole life will be trying to jam into a spot that you have no business being in. So take some time this week and pray that God reveals that to you. And I pray that you gain the courage to change the things in your life you have to change to be who God has made you to be.