By Mary Carothers<\/p>\n
I remember visiting a church when I heard this song. The words went something like this:<\/p>\n
Jesus is my Security
\nJesus is my Identity
\nJesus is my Everything.<\/p>\n
How the Father longs for these words to be a reality in the hearts and lives of His blood-bought children. To feel that our security rests in our finances, our health, another person or anything other than Jesus, is to have built our life on shifting sand (see Matthew 7:26). Why is this? God tells us in the Bible that riches take wings and fly away (see Proverbs 23:5). As for putting our sense of security in a person \u2026 Job learned that he could not depend on either his wife or his best friends to help him. Proverbs 3:5 exhorts us to trust in the Lord with all<\/i> our heart. There is only One who never changes, will never die, and will never, never leave us. His name is Jesus.<\/p>\n
How about your identity? Do you see yourself only as someone\u2019s parent? Or child? What about your husband or wife? Is your identity only in your relationship with them? Politics is in the news a lot these days. Is your identity tied up in one of the political parties? Is it in your career? Or is it perhaps wrapped up in the doctrines of your church?<\/p>\n
There is so much emphasis today being placed on racial and ethnic backgrounds.\u00a0 <\/span>What is <\/i>important is for Christians to understand and to know \u2013 really <\/i>know \u2013 that we are children of the Great King! We have been adopted by Almighty God! We are only travelers \u2013 temporarily passing through this world \u2013 on our way to our true<\/i> home, Heaven. We are each a part of the body of Christ. We are brothers and sisters because of Jesus our Lord. All other sources of our identity are as a passing fad. Here, for a moment of time, and then gone \u2013 forever.<\/p>\n Have you ever heard the expression \u201cBlood is thicker than water\u201d? It means that blood relationships are stronger than other friendships. Because Jesus shed His Blood to pay for our sins and to make it possible for us to be adopted, we are blood brothers and sisters in God\u2019s eternal family<\/i>. And He has no favorites (see Deut. 10:17, Acts 10:34).<\/p>\n I urge you to identify yourself forever \u2013 with Jesus. The Lord yearns over you, longing to be your security, your identity, your everything. In Him is where your identity and your security should rest, for all eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Mary Carothers I remember visiting a church when I heard this song. The words went something like this: Jesus is my Security Jesus is my Identity Jesus is my Everything. How the Father longs for these words to be a reality in the hearts and lives of His blood-bought children. To feel that our security rests in our finances, … <\/p>\n