who

i heard something today that made me think. ( i love it when that happens, because so often i don't think about what i hear - not enough to make a difference, anyway) anyway... someone said "it's not WHAT you are, it's WHO you are." a WHAT can be anything, but a WHO is very specific. God made me WHO i am. and no matter WHAT i may be, (an employee, a fiance, a friend, a daughter, or a "christian") it is who i am that matters.

"who" is also a process. i've been thinking a lot about consistancy lately, and how (in some cases) it is important to focus on the bigger picture instead of overanalyzing the details. for instance, if i want to know God better, i have to spend time with him on a consistant basis. if i don't do that, knowing him will never be part of "who" i am. (see the post entitled "just do it"). this goes for a lot of other things too. practice takes time, willingness, humility, and it eventually makes perfect (or close to it).


"Not that I have already obtained all this [knowing God], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philipians 3:12-16