What defines you?

 

It is very dangerous  when we place our worth on external things or make them define who we are. For example placing your worth on your grades as a student or as a buisness person, placing your worth on  the amount of money you make or on how busy you are. All these things are good. I mean who doesn't want to make money and have good grades, but making them the defining factor of life is wrong because when we loose them (even after much effort to keep), we feel useless, we begin to question our relevance in life and we become so blinded to the many beautiful thing that God can and wants to do in our life.

 I feel very sad and disappointed when I see people commit suicide over a school result. They tied their worth so much to a grade that failing it equalled failing in life. 

Failure is painful, I totally understand, no reasonable person would want to experience it, but when we fail at something we should not embrace it and make it our Identity talk less of going as far as causing harm to our self because of it but instead we should learn from the experience and move on with the believe that God has a much better plan for our lives.

Be careful what you allow define you, define your peace, your joy and happiness in life. There is the buisness, and then there is you as a person, there is the money, and then there is you. Other people might define you based on only what they can see on the outside, but you have to be careful not to join people to give you a name that is not meant for you. Always ask yourself, who am I, what do I believe in as a person, what am I values, what do I want to define me.

Finally, as believers in christ, as people who has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and personal saviour, we should know that our Identity is in him. It is not in anything external, not in the amount of money we make, the amount of degrees we have, not in our physical appearance, not in what people say about us, our mistakes, weaknesses, sins, traumas but in the fact that we have been passed from death in sin to life in Christ Jesus. 

Knowing what defines you bring you closer to being your most powerful.
                          _Oprah