Monday Memo: Identity

Last  night we had our second girls night at youth group. Our first girls night we talked about gratitude, and being thankful for all the beautiful gifts God gives us each and every day of our lives. So this time we decided to talk about God as our ever loving Father, and how our unchanging identity is as his daughters. How beautiful is this - how blessed are we to have a Father who loves us so much. I remember being so struck the first time it really hit me that God created us out of the goodness of his heart. He had absolutely no need to create us, but out of his goodness he created us, and he loves us so much. It gets me every time.

In the gospel today Jesus picked his 12 Apostles. The 12 men he would take under his wing in a special way to form them and build them into leaders of what is now the Christian faith. But before he did this Jesus went off to the mountains to pray.

             Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. (Lk6:12)

Jesus spent time talking to his Father, to our Father before taking any action. This is how the communicated with each other, that the will of the Father may truly be done. 

As the mere humans we are, prayer is crucial, is vital to who we are, to our Christian identity. This is how we develop a personal and intimate relationship with Christ. This is how we come to know who we are and who we are supposed to be, and what we are supposed to do. Praise him. Praise God for our identity as his daughter, as his son, and for that identity to never, ever be changed. It is the one constant in our lives. God will always be there. Praise him. He is our unchanging source of life, spend time with him this week!

In Christ!