What is my identity?

Yesterday my son was in a football playoff game in another town. I wasn't really familiar with the school we were going to so my daughter and I pulled off into a local church parking lot to wait for my husband, so we could follow him. I thought 'hey, there could be no safer place'.

We had been waiting there a good 20 minutes when a woman drives into the parking lot and pretty much branded us as criminals. To me it was funny until she began taking down our license plate number. I had told her who we were and what we were doing; but got the sense that she did not believe us, simply because we were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I was becoming anxious while waiting for my husband because she pulled up behind us at that point and turned off her car. She had a cell phone in her hand and I was not sure; but I think she called the police! I was about to be in some trouble and it was all because she really didn't trust who I said I was.

Long story short is that my husband arrived in the next few minutes and we pulled out to go to the game but were left to wonder if she did indeed call the police about our identity.

It occured to me while we were pulling away that in the believer's life with Jesus; we should be who we say we are and live out our lives that way. Our identity should be in Him! The Bible says in (Romans 1:2b The Message) Through him we received both the generous gift of his life and the urgent task of passing it on to others who receive it by entering into obedient trust in Jesus. You are who you are through this gift and call of Jesus Christ!
I know who I am in Christ and was not worried in that situation; but that lady did not know who we were and she was concerned. Perhaps I should have told her what church I was with and she would have been a little more at ease.

I see in believers that we should ALWAYS be wearing the identity of Christ; afterall, He paid a high price for that identity and it should be shining through us at all times so that others see and desire it also.

Where is your identity today? Is it in Jesus? Are we living out the life He intended for us to live?

Where is my motivation?

11/12/10

Where is my motivation I asked myself this morning when I was in the shower. This is my fourth week post surgery on my knee and sometimes the pain is overwhelming still. From my point of view, I should be able to motivate myself...after all, I am a mother, wife, full time worker, Sunday School teacher, Bible study teacher and speaker...

As I reach my kitchen after my shower, I discover to my dismay that there is NO COFFEE! I am certain now that I must go back to bed. I don't have coffee to help my brain be stimulated enough to get some motiviation. At this point I am wondering why I even got up!

Do you ever have mornings like this? I have had quite a few of these lately and I can only draw one conclusion...and that is that God is teaching me something and I have not completely learned it yet! I get the feeling that He wants me to lean COMPLETELY on Him without a desire of my self. How scary is that? And yet that is what the Word of God tells us to do as believers.

So knowing this; I sit down at the table; without coffee and slow motivation and I see my Bible on the buffet across the room. I suddenly realize this is where my help comes from! My help comes from the Lord.

Suddenly I am INCREDIBLY motivated once again to take on the day as I reach for the Bible and begin to read the Love Letter that God wrote to me! The very first Scripture that God leads me to is in Psalm 116: 5-6 "The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The Lord protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, he saved me."

That verse is TRUE! I am feeling fired up at this point over one verse! My help does come from the Lord because I really need His help each and every day.

It occurs to me that my motivation comes from the Lord! The believer WANTS and DESIRES to be in God's Will and He says that He will lead us. I am so glad of that this morning.

I am motivated now! Where is your motivation today? Is it in the God of Heaven? Are you sinking in a pit of unfulfilled desire and need a way out? Come to Jesus today and find some motivation through His Word!

Now where is the coffee?

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