“For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Messiah” – Galatians 1:10 (Messianic).
God did not make us to be what someone else wants us to be. God made you to be you. If we are going to become all we can be, we have to refuse to be defined by others.
Moses refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh‘s daughter (Hebrews 11-24). Moses had an identity crisis. He was born as a Hebrew slave but was raised as Egyptian royalty, the grandson of Pharaoh, As an adult he faced two options: He either pretended to be Pharaoh’s grandson for the rest of his life and live a life of luxury, fame and power. Or he could admit who he really was: a jew,
If he admitted who he really was, his family would kick him out to live with a slave for the rest of his life to be degraded and humiliated and live a life of pain and drudgery.
Which would you choose?
Most people today are living lies. Culture tells them who they need to be. They are trying to be people they are not. Moses refused to live a lie because he was a man of integrity. He insisted on being who God made him to be despite all the peer pressure.
Who are you letting determine your identity?
Is it friends and family? Are you living someone else’s vision for your life? I lived for other people most of my life and it exhausted me, living someone else’s dreams didn’t work for me. Always trying to live up to everyone else’s expectations doesn’t work.
The Bible says,
“But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing, but God, who tests our hearts” – 1 Thessalonians 2:4
Maybe we all need to make a resolution that we will no longer be letting other people press us into their molds. We will be who God wants us to be. We will do what God wants us to do and fulfill the plan that He has for our lives, not someone else’s plan for our life.
Then take a huge sigh of relief that real success in life is being who we were created to be and nothing more.
From Pity to Praise 