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Identity Crisis
God’s timing is perfect!!!
As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, this passage for me (and I have no doubt for some of you) has come at just the right time. Let me explain.
Simply put, for some time I have been experiencing something of identity crisis. I have been haunted by this one question: “Where do I fit?”
When it comes to this whole Christian scene, our contemporary Christian culture, at the risk of sounding overly maudlin—a great word that means self-pitying, tearfully sentimental—I honestly don’t know where I fit anymore.
Well, thanks to Peter, that’s not true any more!!!
I now know exactly where I fit. And soon, so shall you!!!
Let us begin by reading 1 Peter 2:8-10,
They stumble because they do not obey God’s word, and so they meet the fate that was planned for them.
But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for He called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
“Once you had no identity as a people;
now you are God’s people.
Once you received no mercy;
now you have received God’s mercy.
Check out how many times Peter uses the word “you” in this passage. These verses are all about YOUR IDENTITY. Specifically, you are a chosen people, royal priests, a holy nation, God’s possession, revealers of God’s goodness, and called out of the darkness by God Himself, God’s people, having received God’s mercy.
Our identity is not in our politics, not in our denomination, not in our stances on current issues and events. It is not even in our roles in life or careers.
No, our identity should reside and remain within the confines of what Jesus prayed for us and for his Disciples:
“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.” (John 17:20-21)
(This podcast is by Dewey Bertolini. discovered by Christian Podcast Central and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Christian Podcast Central, and audio is streamed directly from their servers.)