WHO I WAS BORN TO BE - The Birth Of John The Baptist
Susan Boyle sings a song specially written for her - "Who I Was Born To Be" - the central line being "I am who I was born to be..." Everyone remembers her arrival on the stage of Britain's Got Talent . She might have said silently to the audience, as John the Baptist said to his audience, "I am not who you think I am..." because what the audience was thinking was that she was nothing. They wrote her off, sneered at the sight of her ever before she started to sing. There was confusion about John the Baptist's identity from the beginning, about who he was. The expectation among his relatives at his birth was that he would be named after his father according to tradition but both his parents knew that God had another name and identity in store for him. He would be John and not Zechariah. When he emerged into public ministry as a man there was confusion again. He was so impressive, so inspiring that the people thought he must be ...