I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it.
Philippians 1:6 NASB
With each turn in life, whether it’s a job change, a new baby, an empty nest, or a major move, you may be asking, “Who am I now?” We all feel disjointed or lost sometimes, but somehow in our desire for calm, we forget that the answer to that question is an ever-changing one.
The words to the old Sunday school song sum it up: “He’s still working on me to make me what I ought to be. It took Him just a week to make the moon and the stars, the sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars. How loving and patient He must be. He’s still working on me.”
God is not finished defining who you are. You are a work in progress. Like a child asking, “Are we there yet?” at each new mile, trying to rush the journey is futile. You won’t fully know who God created you to be until the end. As John so beautifully expressed, “Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:2 NKJV).
So the real question is not “Who am I?” but rather “How is this new stage in my life making me the woman God is calling me to become?”
Father, help me find beauty in each stage of my life so that I know each one is part of Your ultimate plan.
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Today’s reading was adapted from Daily Wisdom for Women: 2016 Devotional Collection with permission from Barbour Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reading was written by Sabrina McDonald.