It seems the evening news is not what it used to be. People seemed more concerned and interested in celebrity gossip than the State of the Union. Only today a story was featured concerning the arrest of Reese Witherspoon (a well known actress from Nashville) by an Atlanta police officer. As the video from the dash camera from the police car indicated, she was very belligerent, asking “Do you know who I am?”
It's a phrase we hear often enough. It's not the words said, but the way they are said; as if that person was the center of the universe and all should just let he or she do whatever they want just because of who they are. While they might be the object of paparazzi, tabloid magazines and have our admiration, God sees them exactly the same - just like us.
King David, one of the greatest kings of Israel and listed in the genealogy of Christ, was reminded time and again that he was only a mere man. “Who am I, O Lord God? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far? And yet this was a small thing in Your sight, O God; and You have also spoken of Your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the rank of a man of high degree, O Lord God” (1 Chr 17:16-17). David knew he was fallible and often made mistakes. He acknowledged there was nothing special about himself; rather it was God who had blessed and preserved him..
Today, we live in a world where pride and narcissistic tendencies have become so prevalent, people are blinded. They cannot see this life is temporal. It is an unfortunate trait of man to feel he is superior to every other human because of his name, wealth, or position in society. People seem to think that's all that matters in this life. No matter who we are in this world, there is soon coming a day when “Every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then each of us shall give account of himself to God” (Rom 14:11-12).  It would be a chilling, frightening experience to say to God, “Don't you know who I am?” and hear His reply, “I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.' There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out” Luke 13:27-28.
At the end of this life, it matters not who you are; what matters is to whom do you belong. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18).