Struggling For Identity
Author: Rev. Esther Holmes
May 10, 2018
Think about it! We experience promise when we
imitate Jesus, that is, as we wait on, listen to, and obey the Father.
Promises of God are like a magnetic force just ahead of us pulling and shaping
the strong metal of our God created identity. In God’s presence the
little idea called “me” dies and God’s idea of “me” comes into being.
Only as we experience profound
change will we ever hope to see life transformation in the people. Our
vocation is secondary to our identity. So important to allow your God
given identity to emerge.
We can’t run fast enough to escape
our past.
Example – Men without dads feel
sidelined, kept from getting to “suit up” for the game of life. They often play
the role of the nice guy or the funny guy to hide the pain. Wild impulses can
come forth from traumatic rejections and are actually eruptions of suppressed
rage.
Rage is not necessarily
outrage. Inner rage can stem from traumatic events that receive no
meaningful explanation. Example – A ten year old never given an explanation
on their level about divorce. If not helped the child begins to build an
identity solely based on escaping the past.
When you look back on your past you
may see vase junkyards of inner wreckage and recognize that God answer to it
all is Rom 8:28. When we see that takes the wreckage and junkyards and
brings promise in order to push us into God’s purpose. We became free to
accept the past and move on to the identity in Christ.
Ps 139:16 – Wow!
We must allow God to bring closure
to the events of our past by reality and not allowing denial. Wisdom
among other things is the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve those
ends by the most perfect means.
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