Ps 8:1-9 – “O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

 2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

 3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, 4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? 5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

 6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, 7 All sheep and oxen — Even the beasts of the field, 8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas.

 9 O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!”  NKJV

In finding the answer to the question we continue digging into what makes us who we are.  One thing that is impossible to overlook is ATTITUDE.  Victor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist, and psychologist also a Holocaust survivor said, “Everything can be taken from man, except the last of the human freedoms, his ability to choose his own attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose his own way.”

For example, you can have a person who is honest and dependable but filled with the negative.  He/she focuses on what they do not have rather that what they do.  They focus on what is wrong rather than what is right.  They look for defects and notice corruption rather than the incorruptible.  That is a chosen attitude.  I read about a person with this type attitude whose teenage son had worked unsolicited in the yard for hours unsupervised. This individual came home from work, changed clothes and went into the yard and immediately criticized everything the teenager had done.  How likely is it that the teenager will work around the house unsolicited in the future?

Attitudes are a part of our character.  Every large achievement comes from a progression of small achievements.  We eat a meal one bite at a time.  We make a journey one step or one mile at a time.  We read a book one page at a time.  Life is moving from one small accomplishment to another in our journey toward the objective.  How well we do and how dedicated we are to the effort depends on our MOTIVATION.  Some do out of FEAR.  Fear of failure, fear of the opinions of others and some do out of LOVE.  One brings damage and destruction the other health.

Imagination is the ability of the soul to put your mind (reasoning component) in places and situations where you are not physically present.  I suggest that every designer and artist sees then does.  Noah saw and then built the Ark.  The Bible tells us that young men will see visions. Where does it happen?  In the soul of man.  Of course, we dare not omit consideration of the importance of THE WILL which is our ability to choose.  It is like the transmission in a car or the rudder on a ship

WHO ARE YOU?  You are the sum total of your Value System, World View, Attitude, Motivation, Imagination, and Will.  However, we dare not omit the key ingredient of Faith to determine who we really are.  What we are is expressed and demonstrated in our CHARACTER, the “hidden part of the heart.”  That which connects to God.  Who are you?  If you are a Christian you are GOD’S CHILD, more than a conqueror, and an Eternal Being housed, at the present, in a human body or temporary house.

            God bless you as you continue your journey in Him!