IDENTIFY YOURSELF

The purpose of calling yourself something, labeling yourself as something, is to give your self an identity.  It provides a standard, a plumb line to grow true to and to measure yourself by.  When  a group loses its identity it no longer shares its unity as a group, but becomes a bunch of individuals with no common center, axels of a wheel without being connected to a hub that will crumble and lose its function as a wheel.

Without roots a tree will fall; without an anchor a ship will drift aimlessly at sea, tossed around by wind and waves.  People of God, people of faith, people of the Spirit must return to Jesus, for he is the standard; he is the plumb line.  “Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith…” (Hebrews 12:2).  “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me” (John 15:26). 

People of God, people of faith, people of the Spirit must also return to the Scriptures.  The Holy Spirit will teach us and guide us through the Scriptures.  “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them they have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me” (John 5:39).

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (John 14:26).

Has leaving home,  neglecting God, neglecting Jesus, neglecting the Holy Spirit, neglecting the Scriptures, and living the way we want to live made this world a better place?  It’s time for God’s prodigal children to remember their identity and return to their loving Father who will welcome them with love and open arms.