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Who am I?
By Joshua Busby
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Who am I? That’s a thought, just who am I? I am a man, a feeble, sinful man with an imperfect body that is falling apart day-by-day. Who are you? Think about it a few minutes…..Casting Crowns sings the following song, “Who am I?” which echoes Psalm 8:4 “What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?”
Who
am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart
Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You're
Chorus:
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours
Who Am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love and watch me rise again
Who Am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me
I am Yours
Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear
'Cause I am Yours
I am Yours
" Copyright - Who Am I by Mark Hall
(c) 2003 SWECS Music / Club Zoo Music (BMI), admin. by EMI CMG Publishing."
“Who am I?”, is a song of amazement that a holy, powerful God would even be concerned about us and our affairs. Mankind is like a flower quickly fading. We are here today and gone tomorrow. We are like a wave tossed in the ocean and a vapor in the wind. Yet God still hears us when we are calling and he catches us when we are falling. The God who sees our sins chooses to look on us with love and watch us rise again. That is an awesome thought isn’t it? We do not serve a laid back God that just sits up on his holy throne and could care less about his creation. Instead we serve a God who “tells us who we are”, as the song, says “I am yours” God is not obligated to have such a relationship with us and call us HIS own: sinful, rebellious, fallen humans, yet he choose to do so. He chose to come to earth as a man and die on the cross, so that we can have a relationship with him and experience salvation and have eternal life with him forever. We also serve a God who does not turn his back on us when we sin and fall as Christian or when we go through the storms of life. He calls out to us in our sin, pain, grief and despair and he calms that storm within us. Who are you? That the Lord of all the earth would care to even know your name or care to feel your hurt? You are “his” that’s who you are if you have come to him through Jesus.