Identity

About the question of Identity, you are invited to read Mathew 10,34-36.

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.

Matthew 10:34-36 NIV

Here Jesus speaks about an extraordinary thing He deliberated to do, a fundamental change deep within people, that is the demarking of individual identity. The separation between self and others, which is not the same as disfunctional opposition, but instead the construction of our own identity as a fundamental pre-requisite to any form of stable gathering of people.

But that is not all. God described himself to Moses as “I am that I am” (Exodus 3:14), which is an absolute identitarian statement.

Just like a painter loves his work when he sees his best qualities reflected therein, so the Creator of all things loves His work, and that is why we are given such important information.

Do not look at this as a burden to grasp but as an edifying tool for your human being. Having an Identity is a right granted to you by the Creator, something He wishes for you and something He considers of paramount importance.