Discovering Yourself

“It is in Christ that we find out who we are.” Ephesians 1:11

One day a boy climbing in the mountains found an eagle’s nest with an egg in it. When he returned home he put it under a hen along with her other eggs. When the eagle hatched he thought he was a chicken. He learned chicken behaviour & scratched in the chicken yard with his ‘siblings’. He did not know any better. Sometimes he felt strange stirrings within himself but he did not know what to do with them, so he ignored or suppressed them. After all if he was a chicken he should behave like a chicken.

One day an eagle flew over the chicken yard & the eagle looked up & saw him. In that moment he realized he wanted to be like that eagle, to fly high, to go to the mountain peaks he saw in the distance. As he spread his wings he suddenly understood that he was like that eagle. Though he had never flown before, he possessed the instincts & capabilities. At first he flew unsteadily, then with greater power & control. Finally as he soared he knew he had discovered his true self – the creature god made him to be.

When you discover you have been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it. Self discovery is what Paul had in mind when he wrote, “It is in Christ that we find out who we are & what we are living for”. We were made by God & for God. Until we understand that, ones life will not make sense. It is ‘in Christ’ that we discover our purpose, our significance & our destiny. In other words we discover our true selves!