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Who are you?
Who do you think you are?
That question is identity-shaping, life-altering, eternity-affecting.
How would you describe yourself?
How do you introduce yourself?
How do you perceive yourself?
In mainstream pop psychology, they’ll talk a lot about self-esteem, or self-image, or self-awareness.
I like to use the language of identity.
What’s your identity?
Who do you think you are?
How would you answer this question, and it’s an important question.
It’s the one thing that changes everything, because when you know who you are, then you know what to do.
If you don’t know who you are, then you don’t know what to do.
How would you answer this question: I am “blank”?
I am rich.
I am poor.
I am young.
I am old.
I am smart.
I’m stupid.
I’m loved.
I’m hated.
I’m single.
I’m married.
I’m married.
I’m divorced.
I’m desirable.
I’m undesirable.
I’m successful.
I’m a failure.
I have hope.
I’m hopeless.
Who do you think you are?
How do you see yourself?
How does your identity alter and affect your destiny?
We’re going to spend sixteen weeks answering this question, and it’s a question that we all ask ourselves, sometimes consciously, sometimes less consciously.
Sometimes others answer it for us.
It starts when you’re little.
Were you the first-born?
Were you the baby in the family?
Were you the middle child?
What were you like?
Were you the funny kid?
Were you the chubby kid?
Were you the athletic kid?
Were you the arty kid?
Were you the nerdy kid?
Who were you?
What names did others give you?
What nicknames did they give you?
Did your parents have a nickname for you?
Did your friends have a nickname for you?
Was it a good nickname?
Was it a bad nickname?
How did they see you, and subsequently, how did you see yourself?
As we continue forward in life and we hit the teen years, then it becomes incredibly complicated.
You hit junior high, you have no idea who you are.
All of a sudden, you’re in a new school.
You have new relationships, and new responsibilities, and new authorities, and they’re all giving you input regarding who they think you are, at least who they think you should be.
All of a sudden, clothes become more important than ever, and hair care, and hair products, and how we appear, and how we size up to others.
And “Have I hit my growth spurt yet?” and “Am I succeeding or failing?
Am I one who is part of the crowd that I want to be a part of or always on the outside looking in?”
You hit college and all of a sudden you’ve got an opportunity to completely reinvent yourself.
You go away from your family, friends, church, community, those who know you, and you get to start fresh—at least that’s what you think.
So, you make decisions about your wardrobe: “How will I present myself?”
About your lifestyle: “Will I go to church?
Will I not go to church?
Will I drink?
Will I not drink?
Will I be sleeping around?
Will I not be sleeping around?
Will I join certain activities or not?
What degree will I pursue?
What life course will I put myself on?
Who am I and who will I be?”
You graduate and it’s an identity crisis.
Now you’re supposed to be an adult.
You’re not prepared for those responsibilities.
“Will I get a job?
Where will I work?
Will I make enough money?
What will I drive?
How will I pay my bills?
Will I be in a relationship?
Will I be single forever?”
And then perhaps, one day, you get your career job.
Then it consumes all of your identity.
“Now I know who I am, and if I can succeed and thrive in this vocational path, that will define who I am.”
And you get married, all of a sudden your identity gets very conflicted.
You thought they were going to marry you to help you become who you want to be, and they were thinking the same thing, and suddenly two selfish people with separate identities collide into misery.
We call that marriage.
“What’s our identity?”
And for the woman sometimes, this is particularly difficult.
“I was this kind of woman, maybe strong, maybe career-minded, maybe independent, and now I’m married, and now I was reading the Bible and it says that my husband is the leader and I need to respect him.
And who am I and how does this work?”
And then you have children and all of a sudden your identity totally changes.
And for the woman, it starts with a change in her appearance, which affects so much of her identity.
Now she’s showing and she’s feeling different, and now she’s turning into a mother, whole new identity.
And the man feels that weight of responsibility, or at least he should, because now he is a father.
And all of a sudden, the child becomes this center around which the family orbits.
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