Maybe it is okay to be mysterious to yourself.
What a funny statement, right? I don't mean that you shouldn't know who you are :)
Often as people we want to identify and label ourselves; to define who we are.
This is necessary to development. And morals... principles. How we live out our lives.
But what I'm getting at is that, maybe it is okay to leave room for that you don't know everything about yourself. Only God who made you really knows it all. Maybe you don't know just how good or bad you are at cooking, or how good or bad you are at giving advice. Maybe you haven't practiced these things much so for all you know, you are a gifted prodigy in it but haven't tapped into it yet.... or for all you know, you are absolutely awful and should never ever touch a stove.
You CAN'T know everything about yourself when you look at it in this light. It would take you experiencing ALL of the possible experiences of life for you to realize everything about you. It gets more fun when we consider that we are not flat (the same) but dynamic-- we change as we go through life.
...Why bother with this abstract thought-line.
We must be at peace with simply being- simply living- simply bringing yourself into every moment and not limiting ourselves by putting a box around us. Saying that, "This is the box i fit in" is a rip off because you have no means to really measure your full potential.
So if you are called by God to do something that seems... beyond you... trust His call on what/who you are, not your own.
God even offers us names of who we are in the Bible that forever hold true. Even if you can't quite believe them... accept them.... and trust that these indeed are who you are in Christ and who He has called you to be.
Don't put yourself in a box.
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