Millennial Outpost

Who am I? What is my identity? This is the question that I have been asking myself all these years – and it’s been right in front of me all this time.

Identity is societies’ main focus. Everyone is so concerned about how everyone identifies and uses identity politics excessively – causing it to run rampantly out of control – But why?

Identity used to be what kind of job you have – the title you possess. The type of people you hang out with – the social construct of virtue signaling your identity with the type of people you hang around (there is benefits to hanging around the right people, but it should not be used for climbing the social ladder and it should not be used as your identity). For the more materialistic person, a persons’ identity was the type of car or house. Possessions have a way of altering our identity, our possessions consume us, rather than us consuming the possession.

Identity has been politicized and weaponized to keep people in Check or to expose intolerance if you don’t accept a persons’ perceived identity – however wrong they may be.

But all of it doesn’t matter. Our true identity comes from somewhere beyond the physical or mental gymnastics that people put themselves through. Our identity is more spiritually connected. Our identity is not our job title or our possessions. It comes from somewhere much higher.

My Identity: Follower of Jesus

My identity has been right in front of me all this time. My true identity that I have been searching and trying to reach down deep to find has been there this whole time. I don’t Need a fancy college degree, I don’t Need a fancy job title, I don’t Need a fancy car or house. I don’t need possessions that distract me or that tries to alter my identity because I have the Greatest Identity of all time. I am a Follower of Yeshua.

Jesus died for you and me. I believe that in the name of Jesus, we can all be saved, rescued, and restored into a new direction that works to further the mission and the plan that God has for us. We are strengthened through overcoming our brokenness and our weakness – being strengthened can only be done through God and in the name of Jesus. Our troubled past, problems, conflicts, and pains is something we must go through in order to prepare us. It prepares us by having healing in our hearts, and through our healing, we can better understand what it means to be healed and restored, so that we can then be a healing presence for others.

God is not punishing you. He is preparing you. “Trust his plans, not your pain”.

I believe that God does not simply punish people, he prepares them for what is coming next. God has a master plan to your life and to everyone’s life that we must choose to accept. We learn best from our own mistakes and we can grow from our weakness into strength and not the other way around. Trusting in God’s plans means that we have to resist dwelling in our pain for too long and resist being consumed by our pain. We were given that pain for a reason and not for nothing – take the time to find what God is trying to tell you in those moments.