Who Am I?
By Matthew A. Price and Joel Anderson
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Today's students are shaped by opinions—opinions from their friends, media, music, family, and God. With so many viewpoints, it is nice to know there are absolutes in this world. Part of the Poetry of the Soul series, Who Am I? addresses the formative years when students are asking, "Why am I here? or "Does God really love me?" As readers journal, they will explore their feelings on faith, family, friendships, and themselves at this pivotal point of their lives.
Matthew A. Price
Matthew A. Price, coauthor of Poetry of the Soul, is a writer, publisher, and marketing consultant. He is the author or coauthor of nearly thirty books, including The Story of Christianity, a best-selling reference work that has been translated into five languages and has sold more than 250,000 copies. Matthew's background with youth-oriented projects includes the development of The EDGE, a teen devotional Bible, The Jubilee Family Illustrated Bible, and the series Squeaky Sneaker Books. He has also contributed articles for On Track and Movin' On. Matthew and his wife, Jeanie, live in Brentwood, Tennessee, with their five children.
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Who Am I? - Matthew A. Price
Our purpose at Howard Publishing is to:
• Increase faith In the hearts of growing Christians
• Inspire holiness in the lives of believers
• Instill hope in the hearts of struggling people everywhere
Because He’s coming again!
Who Am I? © 2004 The Forest Hills Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved
Published by Howard Publishing Co., Inc.
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ISBN 1-58229-352-X
eISBN 978-1-451-60515-0
No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations within critical articles and reviews.
Scripture quotations not otherwise marked are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from The New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 50189.
Italics in Scripture have been added by the author for emphasis.
THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU,
HE IS MIGHTY TO SAVE.
HE WILL TAKE
GREAT DELIGHT
IN YOU,
HE WILL QUIET YOU WITH HIS LOVE,
HE WILL REJOICE
OVER YOU
WITH SINGING.
—ZEPHANIAH 3:17
INTRODUCTION
OK, HERE’S THE TRUTH: IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE YOU’RE FROM or where you’re going. It doesn’t matter if you’re tall or short; male or female; brown, black, or white. It doesn’t matter if you’re headed for the Ivies, the Big Ten, the Big 12, the SEC, the ACC, trade school, or bay one at Jiffy Lube. No matter who people think you are, no matter who you think you are, no matter who you really are, the truth—the true truth—is that deep down inside you is a desire (a longing, if you want to be honest about it) to connect to something that transcends everyone you know, everything you see, and (especially) everything you are.
Well guess what? Your quest for utter certainty and spiritual absolutes can have a happy ending. But you need to know that, despite what some people say, there is only one truth-only one path you can take that leads to total peace of mind and eternal salvation.
And how can anyone possibly know this? It’s because only one faith has a