"Become Who You Are"

For those of you that know me, you know I have a ton of music on my ipod.
I love music, well most types of music. And it's all up for opinion.
Become Who You Are
This is a great sophomore effort by the group Mainstay. I've always liked the lyrics to the title track of the album,

"I keep on chasing the wrong things
And coming up empty
This isn't who I'm supposed to be
I keep on running the hard way
From every mistake
And I'm finding each time that you fall
You're just becoming who you are"

Whatever it is that I feel I'm chasing, whatever type of person I'm trying to become that isn't who I am supposed to be. In that case, who am I?

Recently I've been trying to figure out who I am or who I am supposed to be. Then
the other day I met with a good friend and he was telling me about what someone had said to him in a certain situation, "That's not who you are."

Whether we're struggling to become something that seems just out of reach, that's not who we are. Change is tangible but it isn't this mythical ideal that we cling to, it is happening, it has happened and we are different. So when my friend said to me,"that's not who you are" it really started to sink in.
No matter how hard we think we need to become someone else, something other than what we feel we are, we have already become something else. Sometimes we just haven't realized it yet.

I never really looked at it like that, it brings the aspect of being a new creature to the present. Like today, when I went to work and put on my itunes I thought about this song so I put it on, and it all started to make sense even more.

Become who you are.

Who am I?

Who I am is found in Christ.

Christ changes lives, not later on, but right now. Right now you are something different, right now I am something different. The eternal life spoken of in the Bible doesn't begin with you trying to become a "Christian" or living a "Christian" or moral life, it begins with your heart changing being made new, now, not later but right now. This is the confidence in Christ that will challenge us continually. It will alter how we make a decision, remind us that we are different and what we will and will not do. This is the good news, this is encouraging, that Christ alone has changed us in the moment we believe and through our faith our lives are changed.

So no matter what our circumstances be confident in who you are in Christ. We are a new creature. We have been saved from who we were, sinful depraved man, and we have been redeemed. And redemption is a thing to be understood, not once and to be forgotten, but a thing that we must be continually reminded of, "That is not who you are."