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?
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