Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come. - 2 Corinthians 5:17
“Come on Moriah, don’t be a chicken!” “Yeah” Bobby Jo chimed in “quit being a sissy, just jump!” The “jump” was in fact a 20 foot leap from our barn loft into a stack of hay. It was 4th of July weekend and all my friends were having a blast hurling themselves through the air and landing soundly in the soft hay. Everyone except me that is, I’ve never liked heights. But after 2 days of teasing and begging they finally convinced me to make the leap.
So there I was standing at the edge of the loft with kids all around me chanting “1 for the money! 2 for the show!” and I knew that on 4 I had to finally go. I threw myself into the air but unfortunately I fainted in midair so instead of landing in the squishy pile of hay I ended up on the horse’s metal trough. The next thing I remember was waking up with pain searing through my body and people standing all around me, and someone saying that my back must be broken after such a fall.
Miraculously nothing was broken and I healed within a few days. But I came away from that experience with a valuable lesson; if I follow the crowd they could lead me astray, but Christ will never lead me on the wrong path; I can always trust him as my leader and my shepherd.
If my identity is based on Christ when people look at me they will be able to see Jesus in me. I will only be a window into Christ’s character. I constantly find myself making decisions based on what people will think. When really I should only be worried about what Christ will think of me. If I have my identity in Christ I won’t need to follow others. Who I am, should be a window to who I belong to. I want to be a window to Christ. Don’t you want to be one too?
~ Moriah Mays
