Who ARE You?

The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? Jeremiah17:9NLT

I wonder if you have heard those words aimed at you, or perhaps they stumbled from your own lips to an unsuspecting friend, or dare I say even a spouse? The truth may be that we are all a combination of more than one person. A simple example is the voice you use ‘normally’, and the other more refined voice you adopt when on the phone, or curt voice used when talking with some of those perky cold sales callers who always seem to call at tea time?

It can be something more significant and serious than our phone voice of course. The words will almost always be spoken during a disagreement or argument where your words or reactions are not what was expected. I suggest that somewhere along the way in many separations and divorces, these words have been used in anger along with their close cousins, “I don’t know you anymore”. On a lighter note, you may even have uttered them to yourself when you found that you were doing something out of character.

There is a solution which covers everyone and every situation from the sublime to the ridiculous and it is this: God loves you whatever ‘person mix’ you are. That’s every person you ever were, or are now. As a Godly lady once said to a group of teenage girls, “It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from, God loves you”. That was enough to turn one young life around. The Bible tells us clearly that whatever person we were or are, Jesus loves us enough to die for all of your sinful personalities, and mine too. It’s enough to make you eternally thankful, and I am certainly grateful beyond words. All of me!

God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans5:8ESV