Day 2: Who Am I?

This week you will be surrounded by many beautiful, smart and outstanding women. These women make the Greek system a wonderful community to be in, but it’s so easy to constantly compare yourself to them. When we compare, our thoughts go one of two directions: either we will feel inferior to them or we may feel prideful and that we are better than others.

Either way is not based on truth, but circumstance. We must rely on something more consistent than our emotions to base our self-image on. Let’s look at what the Bible says about all of this.

Read Psalm 139:1-18 and 23-24--

“1 You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.“

“23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. ”

Ask

What are some of the verses that stick out to you and encourage you?

According to the Bible, God created you! How does this passage describe that creative process?

What does this mean to you?

How does it make you feel to know that the God of the universe is so involved and invested in your existence?

Pray

Thank God for the things that make you uniquely you! Ask God to give you an honest view of yourself in light of His truth and the way He views you.

Think About It

Live honestly. Be yourself. Don’t hide behind what you think others want you to be. God created you just the way He wanted you...and He adores you!