Identity (Part 2)

Last time, I wrote about the more in-depth reasons that what I write here might be worth your time. I wrote about the fact that I struggle with sin and can understand the hardships that others are going through. I also wrote about my duty as a child of God, to spread His good news, and how this job He has given me makes me qualified to speak.

I realize though, that there will be those who have been within the arms of Christianity, who claimed it once, who have departed without looking back. And it occurs to me that those might not care for my first two qualifications very much. So, this is a different list, a foolish list.


I have been a Christian for 22 years, professing Christ since the age of four, baptized at the age of seven. I first finished reading through the Bible when I was 14 years old, and have read it through in a year several times (one year, I read it twice). I've been serving in my local church for 15 years, playing the piano, hosting small groups, chauffeuring people to doctor's appointments, visiting the elderly who cannot get out, serving on the mission's team. As a child, I memorized several passages of the Bible, and I continue to memorize Scripture - earlier this year I memorized five chapters. My grandfather was a pastor, my uncles are pastors, my parents are teachers, my father-in-law is a pastor, and my husband is a preacher!

Are you a Christian? I am more! 


Like Paul said, I speak as a fool. Anyone can do those things; they mean nothing without Christ behind them. You don't need the Holy Spirit to have a good memory. You don't need the saving love of Christ dwelling within you to visit the people from church that are basically your grandparents. You don't need the Holy Spirit helping you understand the Bible in order to read the Bible. You don't have to be God's child to be hospitable.

But if you think you know it all because you grew up there, because you read the Bible, because you were a pastor's kid, because, because, because - it doesn't mean anything. They're merely facts. So I refer you back to the previous post. I am qualified, not because of my track record, but because of who I am. God made me His emissary.