Sunday, April 5, 2009

ACHIEVEMENT DETERMINES WHO WE ARE RATHER THAN WHAT WE ARE !

Have you ever stopped to consider what really is important to a human being in this world? Have you every wondered why so many people are focused on the WHAT they are rather on the WHO they are? When someone asks us about our life's story, we sometimes use the easy out of expressing WHAT we have accomplished and achieved rather than the PERSON we have become. Each of us is an unique human person created by our parents and by the AUTHOR OF ALL HUMAN LIFE....THE TRIUNE GOD. Yet, in many cases, the world, the flesh, and the devil DENIES our God-like creation because they are wrapped up with the defined existence that is transparent and that can be substantiated by a microscope and by some human-made technology device.

When we are asked WHO are you, how do we usually respond? Our expected response seems to hinge on the WHATS of our Achievement Ladder challenges in life from our childhood to our current status. However, the answer that really matters is our NAME...that defines WHO we are...My name is Sam, Susan, Nora, Mitch, Richie and then we give our SURNAME...the name of our family. Yes, we belong to a FAMILY, but often we overlook our FIRST FAMILY...THE FAMILY OF GOD'S CREATION. We are made in the image and the likeness of God. We are body, mind, and spirit. We are holistically ONE! Our answers to WHO AM I? WHAT AM I DOING HERE? and WHERE AM I GOING? are uniquely ours.

When each of us was created in the womb of our mothers at conception, we became WHO WE ARE TODAY. Our identity was unique, our name was unique, our talents were unique, and our treasures are unique. What, how, when, and where we grow into WHO we are today, depends on our positive attitudes to use the time, the talents, and the treasures that we have uniquely been given to make our mark on the lives of those who are interdependent on our uniqueness. NO ONE PERSON IS BETTER THAN ANOTHER PERSON because of our talents, our treasures, our status in society, and our accumulation of achievements and awards. Our positive attitude determines how far we are willing to effectively utilize our uniqueness in our day-to-day challenges. We have CHOICES that we independently are given to use when the time presents challenges. Some CHOICES that we make are good decisions and some CHOICES are poor calculations with incomplete information. CHOICES THAT ARE MADE ON PURELY HUMAN-MADE DETERMINATIONS ARE RISKY AT BEST. WHEN WE IGNORE OUR DIVINE CREATION, WE RUN THE RISK OF UNGODLY CHOICES.

Yes, we are given opportunities that are uniquely OURS TO MAKE AND TO CHOOSE. What we do with those endeavors makes us WHO WE ARE rather than WHAT WE ARE. If everyone in America was to determine WHO WE ARE, then the future would be resolved in the long-run by the CHOICES THAT WE MAKE NOW. Today is the tomorrow that we thought about yesterday. FREEDOMS COME WITH A PRICE THAT IS UNIQUE. IN AMERICA, OUR FREEDOMS ARE BEING CHALLENGED BY THE WHAT WE ARE RATHER THAN THE WHO WE ARE AS OUTLINED BY THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. IN GOD WE TRUST DETERMINES THE WHO WE ARE...NOW AND FOREVER. ACHIEVE THE ANSWER TO WHO YOU ARE!

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