2025-11-17 07:23:03
Who am I
Forget what happened before, and do not think about the past. Look at the new thing I am going to do. It is already happening. Don’t you see it? I will make a road in the desert and rivers in the dry land.
This verse was originally posted as the UCB word for today yesterday.
I was on a long drive with my family the day before. We were headed home from friends who live almost 400 kilometers away. The kids were asleep for most of the time and my wife and I were listening to an audio book – The Otherworld by Abbie Emmons.
One of the characters was doubting himself late in the book. And I somewhat identified with him for he had recently hurt somebody and had to deal with it.
How often have I (more or less unwantedly) hurt the closest people in my family. Listening to that book, I looked back and felt overwhelmed by how much I had done wrong. How can I get back to who I am – or who I want to be – from this place of lost identity.
I have drafts for a song about my identity in the back of my mind (and perhaps somewhere in my notes also). But I can't seem to find back to that person while I judge myself for my past wrongdoings.
The next day a friend sent me this word for the day on whatsapp and it picked me up right there.
Isaiah tells us (God's word) to look at what is yet to become. Can we leave the past behind and grow as new hearts and new people ultimately?