Who Are You

"Who are you?" "Where are you going?" "What is your purpose?" etc., etc. I have heard these questions asked many times over the years and have been asked them myself a time or two. But I think today I finally heard an answer to these questions that felt more like steak than 2%. It all goes back to Genesis. There we are told who we are, what we are supposed to be doing, and on. God tells us to be fruitful and multiply and rule the earth. So the easy answer to these questions is that I am a man made in the image of God who is to be fruitful (i.e. get married and have kids - notice how there is a close connection between those two) and subdue the earth (i.e. work).

This might not seem like any new revelation, but I think that it does have two startling effects. 1) It drives singleness far, far away. 2) It makes us anti-gnostic. Part of who we are is tied up in having real, flesh and blood kids. And not just any kids, but kids that bring glory to God. Further we have to look at the physical earth and pay attention to how our work effects it.

The Bible lays out basic principles and we trust Christ for wisdom in applying them. These basic questions of who, what, why all find fundamental answers at the very beginning. I wonder how different things would look if we lived by answering these questions with God's answers.