by Joanne Wiklund
With the world the way it is right now, it’s sometimes hard to remember who you are, in your deepest heart. Change has been the mode we’ve all been in this past 18 months. People everywhere are dealing with death and destruction of all shapes and kinds. We’re still being challenged by things we never believed we could ever see with our own eyes. The Media is all too often so quick to give us the gory details of evil deeds. People grow weary of evil very quickly. Thank God for Good News. Evil shakes our trust in our government, our educational systems, our political system and yes, our Media. Who can we trust? Who are we now after we’ve come through all this? We look daily for things to laugh at, to help us maintain a good attitude and wonder about the future.
This whole past year there have been times when I wondered who I am. I’ve done this before the events of the time here shut in with hubby because of the virus. Thinking of that this morning, I think I was my mother and father’s child, then I became my husband’s wife, then I became my children’s mother. Following that I became my grandchildren’s grandma. Along the way I did many other things, but the time here has been good to me. I have remembered, as I’ve done through the years that first and foremost I am a child of God.
So I turned to the Bible and asked myself: Find out who you are.
I found that I am a woman designed to be also the Salt of the Earth, the Light of the World. I’m blessed if I mourn, hunger and thirst after righteousness, be pure in heart, meek so I can inherit the earth. I can be a teacher, a fisher of men, a praying. forgiving person, who knows that where my heart is, my treasure will be also. Did I mention my family and friends? I found that Jesus loved Mother In Laws evidently, because He healed Peter’s mother in-law. My Mother In Law did it right. She said she always wanted to live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man. A line from a poem, but she did it. Even when I wonder who I am, God knows. He knows the number of hairs on my head and that I am more valuable than sparrows. Jesus knows who He is, spelling it out succinctly for his followers. These scripture verses give us His words when He was told that His mother and His brethren were there to see Him. Peace, my friends, He left it with us. Let’s find it personally.
Matthew 12:48-50 “But he answered and said unto him that told him, “Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?” And he stretched forth his hand toward his discipies and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
Matthew, 11:28-30 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
