(5) Embracing Your Identity In Christ

What If?

You are a fireman about to go off duty after a long 24 hours of being on call. On the way to your car, an urgent call comes in to your station. There is a five-alarm fire involving an office building downtown and your unit must respond immediately with every available fireman.

Three minutes later you are on your truck heading downtown. As you arrive at the site, amidst all the chaos and confusion, you are immediately aware of glass and metal parts falling all around. Violent explosions and bursts of flames can be heard and seen high above. Nobody in their right mind would ever volunteer to go into that burning building. Scores of people are running for safety and now you are told to go inside and make your way up a stairwell to the floors where people are trapped and the fires are raging. However, you have been trained for just such a moment as this.

This is your job. You lower your head and rush into the building because of who you are and how you have been trained. You would respond to such a crisis in light of who you are.

How does this scenario relate to the connection between your identity in Christ and your daily behavior?

In our world today, what are some ways a person’s identity is defined?

God Says What?

Galatians 2:20

Galatians 2:20 NLT

My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

So What?

Now What?