Your identity is who you are regardless of
circumstances.
If you come home from work one evening to
find your home and all your possessions have been burned
to the ground and your wife and children safe but crying what would you do first?
Probably a dozen things would come to your
mind. One of the first aspects of your identity to reassert
itself would be The Provider. You would call up the Father in you, hug
your wife, cuddle your
children and get them to a safe place.
You would make sure they were fed, had a
place to sleep, and an environment that would provide safety
and security.
Every situation, good or bad, makes a withdrawal
on our identity.
We demonstrate our Christ-likeness or our
carnality. There is no one else to blame for this since we are in
charge of who waned are how we show up.
It is not what other people say or do to us
that defines our
life it is our response. Jesus is the same
towards us yesterday, today and forever. His love for us is unchanging. He
certainly does not love us
according to our performance, maturity or
immaturity.
Whether we do well or badly, He is
consistent in His heart toward us. He has a series of internal
values that allow Him to be consistent.
- Graham Cooke
- Graham Cooke
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