IDENTIFY MYSELF!

In the end it’s all about BEING, not DOING.  As I meditate day and night on the law of God, it becomes my nature; it slowly absorbs into my mind, heart, and soul and it becomes who I am.  A tree planted by streams of water doesn’t do anything.  It simply IS a tree, nourished by its roots and bearing fruit, just as it was designed and created to do.  All is accomplished when I am nourished by having my roots dug deep, absorbing the living water from the river of God.

Jesus did out of who he was and he continues to be…I AM.  That is enough.

Anything I do is simply a yielding of the fruit of my relationship with God through Jesus.  “I am the vine. You are the branches.  The branches are nothing but dead wood if they are not attached to the living vine. 

Jesus fulfilled the law of God and the Prophets.  The law became a living being.  When I am nourished by my relationship with Jesus I absorb the law and it becomes my nature.  I don’t DO; I BE; I am.

The world is conscious of identity.  It offers the ability to categorize, label, judge, and evaluate one another.  People have told me I am difficult to identify; they are unable to put me into a category, put a label on me, or put me into a box. I am not that mysterious, I just don’t fit into any mold the world offers.

God is simple when He identifies Himself; “I am the Lord, your God.”  God is simple when He identifies Jesus; “This is my Son, with whom I am well pleased.”  My identity is simple; “All who receive him (the Word), and believe in his name (Jesus), he gave the right to become children of God…born of God.”  I share my identity with the “All who”.

This becomes the firm foundation of my identity.  I need no other; I desire no other.  It takes awhile to get to this Truth; it takes growing old and watching the flesh (that is thought to be identity) break down and decay.

“All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. 

The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord

blows on it” (Isaiah 40:6,7).

When the breath of God blows on me I will be face to face with God.  All my flesh will be blown away like dust and ash.  But I, the true I, will see His face and hear His Word, forever.

QUERY

The Word was made flesh for only three years of eternity.  How significant is the flesh and all that I do in the flesh, in the light of eternity?