Dont You Know Who I Am?

It seems as
though in America many people walk around with a sense of entitlement
based on how they define themselves. I overheard 2 people talking on the
gateway while boarding the plane this morning. The man was telling the
woman with him that there was a mini security checkpoint at an airport
and he got stopped and had his bag searched. She responded didn’t you
tell them who you were. To which he replied yeah but it didn’t matter, I
wasn’t president yet…So I’m thinking I don’t care what you’re the
president of, how much you paid for your flight or where you are sitting
on that flight. You have to comply with security measures just like the
rest of us. Anyway my point is not to complain about this guy but to
prove a point that Americans have an inflated sense of self-worth.
Self-worth can be a good but I realized that our self-worth needs to be
defined by who we are in Christ. Not what company we are the president
of, what class we fly, what car we drive, what clothes we wear or even
what church we go to. How much money our church has, how many small
groups we have and how big they are, or our church attendance… I think
you get my point.

I was looking for an
appropriate scripture about our identity in Christ and though there are
so many I realized the best one to sum it up is Isaiah 43:1 “…Fear not
for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name, YOU ARE
MINE”… What else do we need to know?

If you don’t know who you are I can guarantee you are not your style,
your school, your major, your job, or any other crazy thing we have
decided defines us.

So bottom line; you are
child, scratch that you are a beloved, cherished handcrafted child of
God . He loves you despite anything…you caught that? ANYTHING you have
ever done…EVER.