YOUR PAST, YOUR PRESENT IS NOT YOU

The head of confusion in searching for identity is thinking that, you are your past or your present.

   It easy to be confused while searching for who we are, so many people take themselves to be their PAST, some take themselves to be their PRESENT, while some are still not able to locate who they are, they try many operations maybe it will give them a definition of who they are, but all of that can never define you, because you are who you are. 

   Being able to know your identity is your first great achievement in life because if you fail to locate your identity, you can never find your place and role in the drama of the world.

THE PAST

The past is a season that has expired. Although many activities took place in the past that involved you but none of those activities can give a definition of who you are. They are just like winds that blow around a big teak tree, the wind can shake the tree, it can make it bend to the left and right, it can even break a branch of it or pull the tree down totally, but all of that does not mean the tree is weak, it does not say anything about the identity of the tree rather than, the tree is "a big teak tree". Likewise, every activities of the past can be as violent as the terrible wind or peaceful as a gentle breeze, but they have nothing to do with your identity. Take for instance, when an evil doer changes to be a good person, people seem to forget about his former acts and move on with the trend of his goods, also when someone who is good changes to a bad person people take their eyes off the goods and focus on his new bads. The point is, either he's good or bad, the identity of man does not change, WHAT he is can change, but WHO he is can never change. Therefore, don't compare your Past to your Personality, you might have been battered, beaten and broken but all of that is not You, they only happened to You.

THE PRESENT

The failure of many is hinged on this notion of describing themselves with their present or current situations. The season that is most capable to deceive man and rub him off of him is THE PRESENT. Today might be rosy or rough, it might be tough or pleasant, it might be sweet or bitter, remember it is just a season, it will pass by, you will remain to be you but if you allow you the present situation to sink into you, you might end up in another lane which is not your place of identity. There was a young man sold to be slave in a strange land. In that strange land, the favour of God was with him that he became the head of the slave in his master's house. Someday! He was given an invitation to fornication with his master's wife, he refused, not because he was afraid of his master but he knew that his current situation was not him, he could identify himself differently from others. So he said, "If I do this, it will not match with my identity for, I am a child of God". The same way, so many people have accepted their present situation to be who they are and have fallen into  wrong acts that place them on the wrong lanes.

   Now you know that your past and and your present is not who you are. Who Are You then if you are not your past and your present? You Are You! The Unique One God has Created and named before conception. Don't confuse yourself by thinking all you are passing through can alter your Identity , No, it can not. There is a YOU in you, the YOU you always behold in the mirror of your heart, is the you.