Who Are You?

In my most recent Beth Moore Bible study, "The Quest," Angela Duckworth writes:

Identity influences every aspect of our character, but it has special relevance to grit. Often, the critical gritty-or-not decisions we make--to get up one more time; to stick it out through this miserable, exhausting summer; to run five miles with our teammates when on our own we might only run three--are a matter of identity more than anything else. Often our passion and perseverance do not spring from a cold, calculating analysis of the costs and benefits of alternatives. Rather, the source of our strength is the person we know ourselves to be.

Beth Moore continues this thought by writing: For people of faith, our source of strength is far more impressive. It's who we know God to be. However, if we never connect His identity with ours, the pipeline built by the cross connecting us to divine power stays mostly clogged by unbelief.

When I think about my growing up years, my years in college, raising children, marriage, this all makes so much sense. I hope it does for you, too.