Friday, July 12, 2019

MATT Good morning! I’m Matt Farmer, Associate Pastor at Central United Methodist Church in downtown Meridian. Identity theft is a big problem in the age of credit cards and the Internet. It’s not hard for someone to retrieve your vital information and pose as you. If that were to happen, however, it would not change the essence of who you are. The thief would not steal your true identity—just some superficial information about you. Your identity goes much deeper than your ID numbers. In reality, you are who God says you are. Nothing really matters except whether or not you are identified as a child of God. That alone will dictate your eternal destiny, and that alone will indicate whether you can live life to the fullest. In 1 John Chapter 2, there are three identity qualifiers—truths that reveal we are followers of Christ: obeying His commands, walking as Jesus walked, and avoiding hatred toward others. Who are you? Do you know Jesus? If so, you will obey His commands, walk as He did, and love others. That identity is one that can never be taken from you.