Who Am I?

Psalm 144:3-4

Who am I?

That you would love me so gently?

Who am I?

That you would recognize my name?

Lord, who am I?

That you would speak to me so softly?

Conversation with the Lord most high

Who am I?

Chorus to “Who Am I” 

Performed by: Point of Grace

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth would care to know my name?

Would care to feel my hurt?

Who am I, that the bright and morning star would choose to light the way

For my ever wandering heart?

Not because of who I am

But because of what you've done

Not because of what I've done

But because of who you are

I am a flower quickly fading

Here today and gone tomorrow

A wave tossed in the ocean (ocean)

A vapor in the wind

Still you hear me when I'm calling

Lord, you catch me when I'm falling

And you've told me who I am

I am yours, I am yours

First verse and Chorus of “Who Am I”

Performed by: Casting Crowns

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LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him? Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 144:3–4

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“Who am I?” is essentially what the psalmist was asking in these verses. Over the years I think I have actually heard 3-4 songs that ask this question in varying ways.  There could be a dozen different songs that ask that question and we would never exhaust the possible ways of wondering “What is man, that ‘God’ takes knowledge of him?”  When we catch a glimpse of an infinite God, compared to finite man, we suddenly feel so small.  

In these verses, the psalmist is in awe of God being eternal, and the brevity of our own lives.  He compared us to a breath and a shadow.  I don’t know how much time you have spent thinking about this idea, but there has never been a time in which God did not exist, and there will never  be a time in which God does not exist.  He always has been and always will be.  Comparatively, man’s life is nothing.

If that is who we are, then why does God take notice of us?  Why would He hear our prayers?  Why would he even care about our problems?  These are good questions.  They also have a simple answer. Because He chose to.  God decided to make man for a personal relationship with Him.  It was not because God was lonely. He willed to demonstrate His creativity by making a universe with all that it entails.  Then He placed man in that universe and made him (man) the object of His (God’s) affection.   From the beginning, God spent time with man.

Sin messed that up, so God sent Jesus to redeem man and to restore that relationship.  Even when we reject Him, with all that He has done for us, God still pursues that relationship.  He gives us the ability to choose, but like with everything else, all choices have consequences (good or bad).

Father, thank You for taking thought of man. You didn’t just throw us out here into Your creation and forget us.  You love us and take note of us, even when we forget You.  I pray that You draw Your children closer and closer to You.