Sooner or later, each one of us must give up the idea that somehow we belong to ourselves and can make our own choices. We do not and cannot. We were created by God for God; we were born in Christ for His mission.
As long as we are seeking our own "identity" and self-fulfillment, we are bound to run aground. As soon as we begin to seek Christ's identity and the fulfillment of His kingdom on earth, we finally begin to discover that for which we were made from the beginning.
Everything created has a purpose---not self-determined, but determined before-hand by its Maker. The axe cannot decide it wants to be a shovel; it was not made to be a shovel and will perform badly as a shovel. The shovel cannot be an axe. The question we need to ask is not "Who am I?" but "What is it that I was born to do?" Then, in doing what we are made to do, we will find out who we are.
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