How to define your identity

Madonna did her thing. Was it curiosity or enjoyment that grabbed millions of viewers’ attention during her halftime Super Bowl performance?

Shocking, talented, daring, vulgar, gifted? No matter which describes her, she has to still answer the question: How to define your identity. According, that is, to this article in this Wall Street Journal interview:

“Since dropping out of the University of Michigan and moving to New York with $35 in her pocket, the woman christened Madonna Louise Ciccone has adopted a dizzying array of identities: the sexpot Material Girl; Esther, the Kaballah enthusiast; Queen Madge, the Anglophile.”

Wanna be like Madonna? Many are when it comes to defining their identity. Questions rumble: who am I? The search for identity is more common than Super Bowl parties.

And when the cheering is over, the winning team goes home with their prize. But in the silence of night, the search for identity still runs through the football field of the mind.

Until God scores the touchdown for humanity by answering the nagging question, How to define our identity.

“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1)

Madonna has fame, but we have firm reassurance– of who we are, and whose we are.

Father, thank you for giving me the identity as your child. Thank you that I can live a Jesus-centered life. To love you back. To accept your abundant provision. To settle in your comforting arms. To breathe in your healing power. And to expect the riches due to your children. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

• What expectations do you have as His child?
• When did you claim your identity?
• Do you ever question to whom you belong?