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Exodus 3:7-11
Matthew 3:13-17
Identity determines what we will do.
We are all driven by our identities.
SEAM: The same is true in our own lives.
The identity we claim determine the way we will live.
Why is this important for us to know?
Because most of us are trying to live a certain way in order to have an identity.
It is what we do every year at this time.
We create new habits, routines.
Or maybe we stop doing something, so we can be new.
Healthy, humble, wise.
Patient, content.
But a month in, two months in…if your me…already you have fallen short.
Failed.
Given up.
You wish you could be those things.
You wish you could have one of those identities.
Some majority of us end up living lives where we do not even know what our identities are.
We live the identities that other people give us.
Our Parents give us.
Writer story
Our Friends.
Work:
Social Media: Influencer.
Wealthy
Our Bosses… Hollywood…Social Media… The World…Satan himself...
I am what I do.
(What contribution to you bring to the world?
We try to earn love from others instead of accepting God’s free love through Christ
I am what I have.
We believe that security is found in what I have…where Jesus models surrender to the love and security of the Father.
I am what others think.
This is all about influence…and I think this is the false identity that is becoming the biggest deal especailly for millenials and Gen Z.
They are influence driven.
Their lives are lived online… where success is dfeined by how many people see me…how many likes do I get… how many shares do I have.
I wish that I was immune to this, but this is the atmosphere of our culture.
When we do not know who we are it literally does “violence upon ourselves.”
It causes violence upon our relationship wiht others and most importantly, we are unable to have an honest/intimate relationship with God.
And that leads us down a hole of wanting approaval, wanting comfort, wanting love from people…that are unable to give it…because we do not know our true identities.
“The Truest thing about ourselves.
In order to break free…to be able to be at peace with ourselves and have true relationship with God… we must know our trueselves.
We must learn to love ourselves for all our strengths weaknesses and dificiencies as God does.
Baptism unites us with Jesus.
We are children of God.
Romans 8:12-17 shows us this adoption.
You and I do not have to live the identities we had before.
We do not need to be enslaved to our flesh…a biblical symbol for the selfish, selfmotivated, broken parts of us.
We are instead now adopted into God’s family.
We have a heavenly Father.
We are no longer defined by the identiies others have given us… we are defined by God’s Love...
And as Children of God we can experience his forgiveness.... Matthew 6:9-13
You are no longer a slave to sin.
You do not have to make choices that hurt you and those around you.
You don’t need to live in addiction to destructive habits or thoughts
One of the biggest things that I am working on right now is experiencing freedom from not needing the love of others.
When we fully know how loved we are…how much God really loves us…we are not starved for love…we are full of love… and the sign of being full of love, is that it pours out onto those around you...
Even as christians… you and I live the story of the Prodigal son…
While you and I may not run away physically.
While we may not deconstruct…or drop your faith…We all have the experience of walking away spiritually.
All of us have gone to the distant land of false selfs.
Of trying to find love in influence…security…work… instead of being at home with the father...
And we become jealous of people that have what we dont.
Or we become anxious about our safety… we feel guilty about the past…or fear about the future.
And the more and more we wander away…the more and more we make ourselves deaf to the voice of the father calling us back home...
But…whether you have walked away from faith…whether you are deconstructed or deconstructing… whether you are lost.... or find yourself living out of a false self...
The Father is always waiting for you to return.
He is always calling you to return.
His Love for you is always going to be greater than the distance you travel away from him.
And when you admit that you are ready to come home… he will be there…celebrating.
If you are God’s son or daughter…you can never stop being his son or daughter.
You are never more his son or daughter.
He loves you…and there is nothing you can do to change that.
But how do you and I begin to live into our identities?
How do we move it from something we know to something that we live.
The Journey begins with being honest with how you feel.
Feelings are an essential part of what makes us men and women made in the image of God.
See God is an emotional being.
Scripture is full of the ways that he feels emotion.
Apart of the way that we are in God’s image is we feel feelings like God does.
Seam: The issue then comes in when you and I do not know how to reflect or respond to our feelings.
God created our physical bodies to respond to the very world around us.
Sadness.
Rage.
Anger.
Joy.
Happiness.
Fear.
Depression
All of these are signs to something happening internally in reaction to something happening externally.
Many of us label these feelings then as good and bad feelings.
We unintentionally create rules against feeling certain feelings, and we stuff them down…pretending they do not exist.
Feelings though do not go away…unless a feeling is felt… it will leak in places that can become destructive and toxic.
I see this in my own life in my marriage.
There is something about work stress…or being angry about something at work, or sad about something that happens at work…that moves me to treating my wife badly.
There were many times…and probably more times now than I would like to admit…that I will say something to Missy that I diddnt mean to, or treat her passive aggressivly… bvecause I have not dealt with a feeling at work....
But you know what the great thing is.
Resilient, healthy couples can handle each others emotions.
If I come to Missy and say “I am angry about this” and show honesty and vulnerablity about my feelings, she shows me compassion and mercy 99 out of 100 times.
Seam: The practice to learn is to instead of blindly letting our feelings lead us…to acknowledge them as part of the way God commuincates with us.
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