Current Alert: My Identity Was Stolen,
and I hope yours was too....WHAT?
Sounds like a morbid blessing or an obvious curse. In our current state of affairs (in the Land of the Entitled and Home of the Afraid) .... we hear daily news of people's identities stolen via the Internet ...unseen predators via digital stealth, robbing away years of hard-earned livelihoods in a micro-second.
ALTHOUGH this is a travesty,
there is a greater nightmare ..
NOT HAVING MY HELL-BOUND IDENTITY STOLEN ...
Oh! By the way ...your eternity is up for grabs if your Hell-bound, lost identity has not been stolen away via the Cross of Jesus, His empty tomb and His bodily ressurrection that carries that lost identity beyond the reach of Hell's unseen predators. By faith in Christ's finished work on the cross, we have a new identity that is secure in His Eternal identity protection plan(John 3:16 - John 3:36 - John 5:24 etc.). The greatest enemy to God's plan for is PRIDE ...which will manifest itself in the ASSUMPTION that I must be a Christian because ....(then comes the string of frail or flabby reasons that have nothing to do with a turning point in our lives ...where we saw the seriousness of our sin, saw the penalty was Hell forever, saw Him as our only hope, and trusted Him to save us ) Any answer other than JESUS will fail us. I don't have to assume anything if I've taken Jesus at His Word and TRUSTED HIM for my eternity.
Romans 6:6 - Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed , that henceforth we should not serve sin.
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away ; behold , all things are become new.
Ephesians 4:22 - That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
STUFF HAPPENS WHEN MY OLD IDENTITY IS STOLEN AND I BECOME SECURE IN THE NEW ---- Eternity encompasses my living ...I live in light of the vanishing point.
Have you trusted Him to steal your old lost identity?
LIVE LIKE IT!
HLFA,
Jeff
