Who are you? How would you answer that question? In other words, how do you define yourself? The world will define us if let it. People define us by many things such as our appearance, how much money we have, our talents mental or physical, and whether they think we do good deeds or bad deeds. Some people set out in life with the purpose of making the world agree that they are somebody. If they can’t get the world to agree, they view themselves as a nobody or a failure.

There is the world’s definition of who we are, and then there is our definition of who we are. Sometimes the two agree. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes we feel we are nothing special. Yet, those around us can’t figure out why we can’t see our worth. Sometimes we think more highly of ourselves than others do. We think we are somebody, and others can’t imagine why we think that!

Then there is God’s definition of who we are. This is where faith comes in. Some view faith as our method of getting God to do what we want. If we believe hard enough, God must act. Of course, this leads to the thought that if God does not do what we want, it means we did not have enough faith. I believe a better definition of faith is seeing and participating in union with Christ. For example, God never defines who we are without looking at Jesus. Who we are is tied to Who Jesus is and what He had done for us. God never thinks of us without thinking of Jesus. Faith is never thinking of ourselves without thinking of Jesus.

Our worth is tied to His worth. Where we are is tied to where He is, and what we have is tied to what He has. Faith is seeing that union though the world or even our own reasoning might disagree. It is letting go of the finite and fickle worth the word assigns for infinite and unchanging worth in Christ. We are always “a somebody” because Jesus is Somebody.