What's your ID?
Mom. Dad. Child, Spouse. Sibling. Friend. Student.
These are standards and many remain unwavering throughout one's life. Sometimes it feels as if we lose our identity as a person and just become one of our labels.
What about in the area of worship? Do we just wear the label of a denomination or religious affiliation. Christian. Jewish. Muslim. Atheist.
Is this the area of one's life where an ambiguous identity is often more visible in certain places, certain days of the week or certain positions at certain times?
Is is visible on Sundays in a sanctuary or on Saturday in a synagogue but not as recognizable the rest of the week?
Work and worship are not separate identities for believers. Brother Lawrence showed the sacred in washing pots and pans. Even washing dishes became a blessed sacrament for him. (Practicing the Presence of God, p. 12)
Socrates asked (in the prayer from Phaedrus), "May the inward and outward man be at one." (A. Lindberg.
Gift from the Sea, p. 23)
The identity that counts is Child of the King. That identity never wavers.
Beloved in Him. An ID of one who lives a life with no separation between spiritual and secular. Richard Foster calls it, in
Freedom of Simplicity, living out of the divine center. (p. 82)
Choose to identify with the LORD and do not waver. It's a lasting identity!
