I talked last week about the Christian identity crisis and the X-Factor I realized that many people must think I’m crazy. For me, I was fine with my identity as“Molly’s Husband” (in a spiritual sense) for the past 15 years too! Then when she went home to be with the Lord, I realized that I was alone and exposed. I told the kids, the night that Molly died, that if I wrote my life story to that point, it would have to be called “Counterfeit”! Don’t get me wrong, I was happy thinking I was(slowly) growing with God and I had no problem with who I was in Christ. I had just enough of the world in me to keep me HAPPY and just enough of Christ in me to keep me SAVED. So why the identity crisis when Molly died? There is no such thing as balancing worldly desires and spiritual growth. You need to choose one or the other and as long as Molly was here, I simply stayed in the gray area! She had enough spiritual energy for both of us! So now what do I do? Uh oh…Identity Crisis!
TweetJohn 15:19 (NIV)
15:19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
