WHO ARE YOU?

                                                 Define yourself. 

 

Let’s talk about a mango tree.  A mango tree is a mango tree, not only when it has become a bearer of mangoes but even so when the only claim it has for mangoes is in its potential to be productive in its purpose – mango production. It may just have sprouted but it is still a mango tree. The potential in this tree is where it derives its name. In actual sense, even if a mango tree was to never bear any fruits, it would still be referred to as a mango tree only that there would be a tag to its name – The mango tree that bears no fruit. Now, that’s a dangerous tag to a name. That tag will lead to the tree being used for a purpose for which it was not ordained for – It will be cut down and used as firewood.

 

This example helps me to realize that I am not just nothing simply because I am this circumstance. God has wired me with a fiber of greatness within me. I am already whom I want to be and thus I am living day by day, making strides towards my purpose, fulfilling it bit by bit until it is fully revealed. Today, I may be like that seed that has just sprouted, but like the Mustard seed, which is small, Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds of the air can perch in its shade.¹

 

When a farmer plants a mango tree, he does not call it a small nothing. No. He calls it a mango tree. On the contrast, most people, be it our parents, guardians, relatives and other people of influence in our lives are rarely able to speak and to call us by that seed of greatness that is within every one of us. At times, we are called insulting names, names that have no significance in invoking us to be who we have been ordained to be. This is not a blame game. They most likely are not able to perceive the potential that is within us. But not to worry! Here comes in our heavenly Daddy, He calls us his own. He calls us by our names. So if God was to call you today, what would he name would he call you? In Isaiah 49:16, he says,  

“Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.”  

Here is more on what He would call you.

• More than a conquer.
• The apple of my eye. 
•  My Son, My daughter, the heir.
• Strong, victor, great.
• A mighty man of valor
• The work of mine hands.
• My portion.
• My beloved.
• My friend.
• A royal priesthood
• A chosen generation.
• A people belonging to God.

The truth is that God has a lot of hope in us to be who he has called us to be and he is not ashamed of saying it. He knows He is sure we are made for it. He has created us for it!

(Excerpts from Grace for the Young - Simon M. Ng'ang'a)