Identity

I was walking with a friend some years back, and we overheard someone saying “you know how old I am?” And immediate my friend made a statement which I reconstructed “that’s a man whose identity is in his ID CARD – his age”. Many times we grade people and even ourselves by ephemeral things: where we work, how much we earn, how old we are, our wealth or gatherings, who we are connected to, certificates, degrees, institutions attended, scholarships, etc. Those things are but ID CARDs to tell us where you are at a particular time. But they are not who you are. They tell your current position but not your actual destination (Remove your mind from the idea that I’m speaking religious terms – this is life🤦‍♂️). You have somewhere greater a destination, greater an identity that these things. Things like God’s beloved, one who pleases God, one who brings laughter to the poor, etc. Funny though that your destination is determined by you not chances. If you don’t take your actual God-ordained destination for your identity, you will never arrive there. You might as well just remain in the euphoria of your ID CARD until it dawns on you that you’ve gone irrelevant because your ID CARD went out of relevance. Appreciate your ID CARD, but embrace and be more confident in your IDENTITY in God who gave it to you.