Who Are You?

1. What do you want most?

Is it Jesus? (Phil 1.23) Our inheritance? (Heb 11.16)

We constantly have desires that work against us and often feel stronger than our virtuous desires (Gal 5.16-17)

“Ask your heart, What would you rather have than anything else in the world? Reject the conventional answer. Insist on the true one, and when you have heard it you will know the kind of person you are.” (Tozer)

2. What do you think about the most?

Matt 6.19-21 — “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”

Colossians 3:1–4 “Therefore, if you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.” (LEB)

“The necessities of life compel us to think about many things, but the true test is what we think about voluntarily. It is more than likely that our thoughts will cluster about our secret heart treasure, and whatever that is will reveal what we are.” (Tozer)

3. How do you use your money?

1 Tim 6.17-19 - God’s created purpose of wealth is linked with what we will receive in the eternity (v. 19)

“Again, we must ignore those matters about which we are not altogether free. We must pay taxes and provide the necessities of life for ourselves and family, if any. Tat is routine, merely, and tells us little about ourselves. But whatever money is left to do with as we please—that will tell us a great deal indeed. Better listen to it.” (Tozer)

4. What do you do with your leisure time?

Eph 5.15-17 “Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of the time because the days are evil. Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”

“Most people waste it staring at the television, listening to the radio, reading the cheap output of the press or engaging in idle chatter. What I do with mine reveals the kind of man I am.” (Tozer)

5. What kind of company do you enjoy?

Prov 13.20 “Walk with the wise and be wise, but as for the companion of fools, he will suffer harm.”

“Where we go when we are free to go where we will is a near-infallible index of character” (Tozer)

6. Who / what do you admire?

Jn 12.42-43 “Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue. For they loved the praise of men more than praise from God.”

One of the ways you can figure that out is examine who you tend to have the urge to compliment, praise, or express gratitude towards, and also from whom we crave praise ourselves.

That’s why God wants us to worship him; not because he needs the praise to boost his ego. But because we’re expressing our admiration to the highest ideal--God himself. And who we praise, is who we want to imitate. “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”

7. What do you find humorous?

Prov 14.13 “Even in laughter, a heart may be sad.”

“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.” (Goethe)

Humor is a revelation into our soul. It’s like an inverted negative photo of the depths of our personality. It can display our attitudes, opinions, prejudices, and values which often remain hidden to our own selves.