Identity Theft

I don’t remember ever growing up thinking about identity theft.

It wasn’t a thing in the late 80s or the early 90s. Actually, I don’t remember it really becoming a thing till the early 2000s. I was thinking about this recently as I had to give my birth date, social security number, and a blood sample to check on the status of some information.

I’m very thankful for the security, but it really made me think about the idea of identity, and when we began to really wonder about the status of our identity in the world.

The best I can tell, there is a direct correlation to the access of our identity and the ease in which someone can steal it. Said another way; the more we put our identity out in the world; social media, trends, and hashtags - the more likely we are to lose it.

Sometimes people steal it because they want to be like us, but other times we give it away. And I don’t think we give it away out of spite, hatred, or malice, but rather out of a genuine desire to fit into the world.The more I reflect on this, the more I know it’s true. When we place our identity in anything other than our faith, it will certainly shift out from underneath us.

The truth is, if we have our faith in Jesus, then we were never really made to fit in the world in the first place.

Even the title “mom” can lead to an identity crisis, mom-shaming, and all sorts of other things. I recently had the opportunity to sit down and talk about this topic in my latest podcast (you can listen here).

And from that conversation on top of the season of life we are currently living in, I just want to affirm you; just because the world is changing doesn't mean your identity has to. When you lock your identity on Jesus everything else has a tendency to simply fade away.

2 Corinthians 5:17~ “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”