Identity is the most important aspect of our humanity
because it’s at the basis of real human peacefulness and freedom. It’s been
said that happiness doesn’t exist on this earth because it’s an experience
that’s transitory in that it provides us with passing moments of emotional
pleasure.
On the flip side of that coin, what is possible to experience in our humanity is a real sense of
peace and freedom that only comes from living the truth about ourselves. Living
with the knowledge and wisdom of truth enables us to be at peace within
ourselves moment by moment so even when someone thwarts or plots against us, we
cannot react because we have the peace and freedom of truth that keeps us
planted firmly. Once truth is discovered then life comes together as the pieces
of a puzzle.
The ultimate truth that is innate in us is God. As the Creator of life, we are
given the gift of grace to see Him as the ultimate truth and when we believe
and accept Him in our life, He provides for us to help us grow to know more and
more about Him within the scope of our humanity. Our identity is part of God’s
creative order thus without understanding who we are, we are not able to
understand our purpose in life from the perspective of the world in which we
live in nor are we able to understand the people around us.
Thomas Merton stated
it so perfectly “others can give you a name or a number, but they can never
tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover
from within.” [1]
So I ask myself … who is Brenda Diaz?
As a child, I was a girl whose family environment had taught
me to hide behind negative feelings because if they were expressed, I was to be
made to feel “guilty” for those feelings thus the outcome of that family
experience is that of division and disconnection.
Now as a woman of God, I have been blessed to have been able
to see the truth in my family situation and because I have made the conscious
decision to accept its brokenness, I have found freedom from it emotionally. We
cannot change the family dynamics but what we can do is to find freedom from its
dysfunction by choosing the truth that’s found in the Lord.
As a young woman, I had searched for truth in all the wrong
places but always within me I battled between right and wrong. I understand now
that that battle I waged, came from God who from the moment of my conception,
had chosen me to love Him as His elect.
As an adult, I know the power of sin. For many years, sin had
ruled my mind, heart and actions but truth always trumped my deviant behavior; then
the day came when I consciously choose to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior and
that’s when I was saved and delivered. The battle of sin continues everyday but
the difference is that I now consciously choose to do His Will making those
battles stronger because I’m no longer in ignorance of wickedness but through the
blood of Jesus, I am given the power and authority to rebuke the devil and
fight my spiritual warfare! Oh the power in the name of Jesus!
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
[1]
Merton, Thomas. No Man is an Island.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing. 1983. Print
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