Created To Be

Can we decide who we are? Can we decide who we want to be? Can we, like Bruce Jenner, decide our gender? Can we, like Rachel Dolezal, decide our race? Did God make a mistake when he made us the gender or race we were born as? Did God make a mistake when he wired us with the personality we have? Or with the unique giftings we have, different from everyone else? Should we spend our lives wishing we were, and trying to be, someone else?

Is it ours to decide who we are? Or did God create us to be who we are? Let's do something novel and ask God's opinion:

Psalm 139:13-14: You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Jeremiah 1:5a: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before your were born I set you apart.

1 Corinthians 12:7: Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.

Hmmmm, our Creator seems to have the opinion that he's our Creator, imagine that. We are not a mistake. We do not have the right to decide who we are, including our gender or our race. Our life does not belong to us; it belongs to God. He made it, we did not make ourselves (sorry to disappoint all the evolutionists out there).

This life is not a hollow, self-filled, selfish journey of “who do I want to be today because it's all about me.” What a horrible deception. Instead, it's wonderful, awe-filled journey of discovering who God made us to be.