"Who am i" is not the best question to start with

​If I allow myself, I can get lost in the question, "who am I?" That can be a tough question to ask when the answers seem to change from year to year. Sometimes month to month. Heck, there are days the answer changes from minute to minute.

Maybe that's a sign it's the wrong first question to ask myself?

Pastor Steven Furtick suggests we should always start with the question, "God, who are you?"

Too often when we are asking - "who am I" - we are asking, am I a dad or mom, a boss, a runner, a writer, a democrat, a catholic. So often when we ask "who am I" - we're considering that answer through the lens of how we present ourselves to the world. (And often, how WELL we're presenting that to the world).

But when we first ask, God - "who are you" - we've begun asking ourselves what we are made of and not what we make of ourselves. That's important. Because if we try to make something of ourselves out of ingredients that aren't within us, life gets complicated. Confusing.

If you believe like I do, that we are made of God's spirit, and that God's definition of himself is true; love and light - then the more you come to know who God is the more you come to know you are made of love and light.

Maybe who I think I am becomes irrelevant when I spend my days asking God, who are you. Maybe when love and light become the ingredients that overtake my insides, I know them as myself, love and light will become what the world sees on my outside.

Maybe who I am and who God is start to look like the same thing the more I ask, God - who are you.

It's an answer that comes in your bible, for sure. But it's an answer that comes in the dark and quiet. It's an answer that comes in a walk through the woods. It's an answer that comes on the edge of the ocean or looking up at a tall mountain. It's an answer that comes when we hold a baby lamb or pet our dog. It's an answer that comes when we hand a twenty to the homeless or go on a mission trip.

It's an answer that comes when we start considering the miracle of all that's been created, and honoring it, with gratitude, and stop beating ourselves up for the mess we think we've made of it, and the mess we think we've made of ourselves.

Don't ask yourself who you are today.

Ask God who he is.