PowerForLiving

"Who do men say that I am?" Jesus asked His followers. Several of his closest friends, and church "staff" attempted to answer His question. One said "They say you are a great prophet." "Elijah returned in the flesh." They called Him rabbi, or teacher.

"Who do YOU say that I am?" He then asked His men. Only one dared answer and it burst forth from him like sunshine through a raincloud. "You are the Christ, the one who was to come."

Ask yourself now, Who are you? What will you answer? I am Lisa, I have many titles and offices on earth, as mother, wife, friend, teacher etc. But who is Lisa? Inside of me, several voices speak. Not demonic urgings of evil, but the Lisa that I was at various ages. The child, the struggling adolescent, the humbled adult, and the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit speaks gently and honestly, with no covering of pride or motivation for self seeking. It speaks truth. The "me" that comes closest to the true Lisa, is the child. It is innocently humble, not wishing or expecting harm on anyone or from anyone. It is the love voice that wants to share, and if I sit very quietly and think deep within, I can touch an understanding of Who I really am as God created me.

I knew before I became a teenager that I was an artist and a writer. I don't have any idea how I knew, because it wasn't a knowing of "I want to be a writer when I grow up". It was an understanding that these two things were my gifts at that point.

Later, as I became a Christian and the Holy Spirit filled me with God's love, I began exercising other gifts - mercy, charity, patience, etc. But there is a silver thread connecting you to your creator that brings you back into the revelation of who you are and what you are doing here. It is a very quiet "voice", not spoken but felt. And it might take you awhile of searching to recognize it amidst the clamoring of all the other "you's" that are vying for attention and expression.

I believe modern psychology has approached the internal voice issue incorrectly. Most of us have this experience as we grow and search for ourselves in maturity. We seem to feel divided and as if there are many of us in this body.

I believe this is just a result of the lifestyle, the modern technology that has distracted us throughout our youth, so that we no longer remain in touch with our true natures as we grow, but split for a time as we reach out to "become" something we see as valuable in society.