Who Are You?

“They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?”

He said, “I am not.”

“Are you the Prophet?”

He answered, “No.”

Finally they said, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.”

John 1:21-23

 

 

Who are you?

Suppose that question posed to John the Baptist were asked of you.

Maybe it has been.

How did you answer?

Are you a butcher? A baker? A candlestick maker?

John had found his identity in the Word of God.

It wasn’t simply a “this is what I do for a living” kind of answer.

Instead it was the very call of God on his life.

The call of God will always trump the pigeonholes of man.

His life had a far greater purpose than just making a living.

Yours does too!

You may think that you are just one of the billions on the planet slugging along day-after-day to bring home the bacon.

Gods’ purpose for your life is so much greater.

The titles didn’t matter to John.

The call did.

The purpose for which he was created was discovered and lived out by him.

It was discovered through the words of God spoken through the ages but received in the here and now.

You too are so much more than a 9-5 job.

God has a call and a purpose for you.

Don’t simply live for the paycheck.

Instead live for the “...well done thou good and faithful servant...”