Who are you? Part 1

I do not even know where to begin this subject. Everything, everything hangs around this one. ‘Identity’

God help me put the right things Your thoughts in words. LORD help me. Teach me as I write. 

A man has a need for identity. While Animals only have primary need of food, shelter, and reproduction. 

A man needs more than that. He has the need for relationship. His sense of belonging. I am not talking about Christians or any group of people. Everyone has a need to be heard, counted, and valued.

And people do and act to get themselves heard, counted, and valued. Peal down the layers beyond your actions and you will see these motives behind your every action.

As much I want to give an example I do not want to. I want you to do the exercise. Strip your actions and look for the motive…

Let me stop here. Go think about and come back to read further.

Now that you know that there is a need to be heard, counted(belong), valued. Let us go one layer deep of it.

What drives these needs? Think with me. What drives the need to be counted, belong?

You somehow think that by belonging and valued you would know ‘who you are?’
By belonging you get the approval and the approval justifies your belief of who you are…

Father help me. Father help me to use the right words.

Everyone has some belief atheist, agnostic, whatever you have a world view distilled as a child. And you seek validation to fulfill your belief.

 It all strips down to identity.

‘Who are you?’

I shall stop here and we shall continue. Read again and tell me what you understood? And is every action, thought is driven by your identity ‘who are you?’

Contemplate and write to me in comments. We shall read further in coming days.
Father help us to look only unto You. In Jesus mighty Name. Amen