How to Become All God Created You to Be

How to become all God created you to be
Psalm 139 tells us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made by a divine creator who does not make mistakes. By God’s design, therefore, we are exactly who he wants us to be. He can use everything that happens to us in life to shape us into that person. This fallen world, however, distorts our created in God’s image design. Adverse circumstances and imperfect people send us negative messages that damage our sense of who we are and prevent us from accomplishing what he created us to do. As a result our awareness of how valuable we are and how worthy we are of respect and compassion get drowned out by the onslaught of these negative messages. Resentment and anger well up in us because, at the deepest level of our consciousness, we know we are valuable and worthy of respect and compassion. These strong emotions are the guardians of our deepest values, and assert themselves when those core values are violated. We end up acting in ways that only reinforce our negative view of ourselves as we see ourselves hurting the people we love.
At this core value level, we need to see ourselves as God sees us and understand that, if we connect with and live from our God given core value, we can become who he created us to be and do what he called us to do. Colossians 3: 12 lays out the paradigm for this: “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience…(verse 14) put on love.” It is only as we embrace the reality of how much God loves us and chose us to be in a life-giving relationship with him, can we love as this verse describes. Every person in this world may declare loudly that we are jerks. God says we are not. Who is right?
My experience as a life coach and counselor validates these truths. I have had the joy of watching men and women discover their God-given core value, and from that become freed up to experience all that he created them to be, to see themselves released to do all he created them to do. These God defined people have his peace and joy that nothing or no one in this world can diminish.
As I have reflected on this, I have come to see that this is my calling as a pastor, coach, educator and counselor. When asked what I do, my simple answer is: I help people become free to be all that God created them to be so that they can do all that he called them to do. I believe that nothing gives God glory more than this.