Roles and Identity.
Written: April 12th, 2014
“You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.” – 1 Corinthians 7:23
Your identity is beyond your gifting, beyond your calling and beyond your role. Your identity is larger. Your identity is that you are a part of the chosen generation, a child of the true living God. You have been bought by the blood of the one and only son of God, Jesus Christ. We allow a lot of things to come and dictate our identity, such as our past, our failures, our calling even our gifts. These things aren’t meant to dictate our Identity, though they can shape who we are they are not who we are. Our Identity is much much larger. We are co-heirs with Christ, adopted. We are Sons and Daughters of the Living God. Bought with the ultimate price. God gives us gifts and callings, they are not who we are. Though we are used through them. This is something I have been wrestling with, as a musician guitar is clearly a huge gift to me. At times I have strived to be known as a guitarist, I wanted my gift to be who I am and I have come to realize when we allow our gifts and callings to be our identity we lose focus on why we have our calling. We miss the bigger picture. We will slowly stop looking to God and start looking at how “effective” we are with our gifts and calling. As a huge leader in my life says “God is more concerned with your heart then your ministry. If God had to choose between your heart or your ministry he’d choose your heart every time.” Though God has plans for us with our gifts and to use us through our calling they aren’t who we are. When we come to realize that our true identity is that we are a child of God and have been bought with the ultimate price, we start looking back to God. We start to see the bigger picture such as the reason why God blessed us with our gifts and called us to our calling. Today I challenge you if you are like me, to stop consuming yourself in your gift and calling but into God and his heart. Then can we truly be used fully for his kingdom.
