Serbia's true identity

It is often claimed that a person is "the sum of their thoughts and their actions," but this is not the whole story.

We have a past, and it explains how we got where we are now; we have a present, and that is expressed in our daily lives; and yet we have a future as well, something we will become, and if and when that potential is realized it may supercede all that has gone before.

We have a potential, -- all of us-- that God has in mind for our good. Its origin is found within His love for us, and it begins as soon as we allow Him to have His way. Beyond the horizon it stretches like an open country.

When we enter into God's paths He transforms us. The whole of our past takes on a different context. Of course it is still there behind us, but ahead is a future He longs for us to enjoy, and in comparison with that future, our History fades into insignificance.
This is true not only on a personal level, when we receive Him into our lives; it can be true of whole nations as well.

Serbia has passed a watershed in its History. From now on, things will take a different turn. The waters will all run in different direction. God will bless this people, and when He does, their sorrows will turn to joy. They have something good ahead of them, if only they could know it, something important, a new identity, because what God makes out of you makes everything you were before obsolete.

"No longer is your identity to be found on the field of Blackbirds

It is to be found in what I am going to make of you,

In what you become

When I meet with you."