Who Am I?

I have always enjoyed science fiction. I read Tom Swift books as a boy and watched just about every Star Trek episode on TV. One of my favorite Star Trek shows featured the shape shifters. They were a species that could change themselves from one thing to another at will. I always thought how neat that ability would be.

We actually do have that ability. According to Walter Anderson in his Confidence Course "You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think." More important than his opinion is the teaching of scripture. In Proverbs 23:7 we read "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he!" and in many places we read "According to your faith, so be it unto thee." Obviously it is extremely important for our thinking to be right so that we can be right.

The path to right thinking begins with a heart change. Scripture tells us that the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. By our nature we don't think right. So our nature must be changed. We must become a new creation in Christ Jesus. Then we are told are told to let the mind of Christ be in us. A warning is given in Romans 12:1-2 to not be conformed to the world (and the way it thinks) but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind.When we begin to think the way God thinks we are changed and can become more like Jesus every day. That is God's goal for us... to be conformed to the image of Christ. I once had a student explain his improper behavior as he suddenly realized a significant thought. He declared, "I forgot who I am." Who you are depends greatly on how you think. Who do you think you are?