Who is that? Who is she? Who is he? Who are we? What are we defined by?
Is our identity based on how many people we serve lunch to on Sunday? Is it founded on how many people we pray for? Is it found in the sick people we visit or the kind of people we are friends with? Is it based on who our parents are, or who we are expected to be?
That’s where we often find our identity. We find our worth and even a lot of times our very life in how well we walk the Christian walk. We find our identity in that. We often find our very life in that.
A lot of times we find this struggle at the cross. We start this striving for perfection at the cross, when in reality the cross is perfection. Salvation is the point that we die to ourselves, to our bad deeds, to our good deeds, to our defeats, and to our victories. This is where our identity is changed from us in ourselves, to Christ in us. We are saved, so we are free from obligation. We don’t have to do anything at all. Christ did everything that was needed.
But as we pursue the living God, as we seek what God has for us, we find a desire to do the things that we are no longer obligated to do. We aren’t doing them anymore to gain acceptance or worth, we are doing them because we are madly in love with the Creator of the Universe, and because that Creator has a heart for the poor, for the lost, for the sick. He has a heart that begins to beat inside of us. We begin to love what He loves, care for what He cares for, and desire what He desires.
We find our identity not in our actions, but in our God.
