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Discipleship Focus: Identity
- Identity: Our true identity comes from the Father. Only when our identity comes from God can we be obedient in ways that satisfy our person to our core.
As human beings, we ultimately have three choices. We can reject Christ and follow something or
someone else. We can embrace Christ
obediently and submissively. Or we can
try and hold onto both Christ and the world.
This third choice scares me – and in truth I think this is the
path that is the most tempting to take.
There is high value in following Christ and believing in God. The whole eternal life inheritance is a
rather great benefit! However, at the
same time following Christ is hard. It
is difficult to sacrifice the things of this world so that we can live in
obedience with God’s ways and Christ’s example.
We want the benefit of salvation, but do we really want the identity
that God desires us to have?
This is a very important question, especially as we look into the
world. If we are living like the world
but claiming to follow God, we send mixed messages to the world. We are sending the message that there is nothing
to following God. We are sending the
message that there is no point to following God because it doesn’t change
anything. If we claim to follow God but
get our identity from the ways of the world, we do horrible damage to our
testimony.
The Lord is our inheritance.
We need to live like it. We need
to learn how to make choices that demonstrate that we are about God’s work and
not our own agenda. We need to learn how
to live in such a way that demonstrates the change that God is making in our
life!
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