KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Identity
AFTER WORLD WAR I, hundreds of shell-shocked French soldiers could not remember who they were...
The military's records were so faulty that they were no help. How could those victims of amnesia recall their names and be reunited with their families? Someone suggested an Identification Rally to be held in Paris and announced throughout France. On the day the rally took place, thousands of people gathered in a large plaza in Paris. One by one the bewildered soldiers mounted the high platform and anxiously asked, "Please, please, can somebody tell me who I am?"
THOUGHTS: The importance of personal identity cannot be exaggerated. But immeasurably more important is our spiritual identity. Do we know whether we are an accidental product of a mindless process of evolution or whether we are God's creation made in His image? Can somebody tell us who we are? Yes, God can, and He does so in the Bible (Vernon Grounds).
KneEmail: "Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God" (Eph. 2:19).