Playing the "Who Am I?" Game

You’ve probably played the party game: Somebody tapes a name of some famous person to your back and you mingle around asking questions as you try to figure out who you are. I’m embarrassed to say I can never figure mine out before I get too sore from all the partygoers kicking me!

But if you’d like to play, imagine that God has placed a name on your back. Now go on wandering about in your daily existence and ask questions to deduce who you are:

1. “Am I an animal?”

Nope. After God finished creating the animals after their own kind, “God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness' … male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:26-27). This says “Our” because it is referring to God—both the Father and the Word (who was Jesus before He became the Son as explained in John 1:1-18). They created humans to become part of Their family, which Jesus referenced when He quoted Psalm 82:6 by saying, “You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High” (Psalm 82:6, John 10:34). Your destiny is to be born at the resurrection into the God family.

2. “Do I have an immortal soul?”

Plato and other philosophers influenced everybody to think so, but the Bible says you are a soul rather than you have a soul (Genesis 2:7). Also, the soul that sins will die (Ezekiel 18:4). 

3. “Am I just physical then?”

Nope. You have a “spirit in man”—what puts you on a higher plane than animals—which is meant to be united with God’s Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:11) when the Father chooses that the time is right to call you (John 6:44).

4. “Am I called now?”

If you understand such spiritual concepts: “Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord” (Isaiah 55:6-7).

5. “Am I just the nobody I feel like?”

God the Father sacrificed His own Son for you, and He plans to freely give you all things (Romans 8:32). He is ready to share His divine nature with you (2 Peter 1:4).

6. “Am I just going to end up failing such a wondrous purpose for living?”

“Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 4:6, emphasis added). Please let God begin the process in you!

7. “Wow! But I still have no idea who I really am.”

“He who overcomes … I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem … And I will write on him my new name” (Revelation 3:12).

Then you will know who you are! For now it’s pretty good being God’s son or daughter with such a future.