Finding yourself!

Finding yourself!

As a 22 year old kid I have found many people that I associate with who are trying to find themselves. They talk about how you need to explore the world and to explore yourselves before you can find out who you really are. As I have thought about this concept it has hit me on how it is true, but it matters how we do this. It matters what we explore in the world and in ourselves. 

How many times have you hear you are what you eat? If we looked at ourselves in that light what would we look like but what if we apply it to the our actions? You are what you think do and say? What would we look like then? I feel that to many times in this life we get caught up in the moment and influence of the world and we focus on what is around us. And at that point when we focusing so much of what is around us we lose our identity. 

One of my favorite phrase about losing your identity comes form the bible Matthew 16:25 "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it" If we see in this scripture the savior is talking and he indicates that there are a few choices in life but only one will help us the most. We can either lose ourselves in the world and forget about ourselves, or we can lose ourselves in the savior and be saved. Now I am not saying lets go out and sit on the street corner and tell everyone to repent, nor am I saying you can not have a life. But what I am saying is that when we focus on the savior He shows us who we really are, He helps us find ourselves. 

So it is true that we need to explore, and we need to explore the world, but we need to make sure it is line with the savior. He taught such things as not being in bondage to satan or addictive habits, He taught us to help those around us, and to increase in knowledge both enlightening knowledge of the world that can help us and especially of Him and our Heavenly Father.  As this picture indicates this swimmer is swimming to the surface and finding herself in the reflection of the surface. It always takes effort to raise ourselves the the high way a living but I know we can.