Article July 2, 1990 Issue

What is real identity?

The only way to find out who we really are is to look past the material appearance to the spiritual identity we find in God.

Lesley E. Gort

How do we identify ourselves or our neighbors? Do we look at height, weight, race, age, appearance? Are faces or fingerprints, or human names, true indicators of identity?

While these are all convenient ways of referring to our fellow men and women or to ourselves, there is a deeper sense of identity than that which the physical senses tell us about. It's the identity God gives us, our sonship with God. When understood and demonstrated in the way Christ Jesus showed us, it makes a radical difference to the conditions and harmony of the world in which we live.

Probably the first form of identification associated with a person is his or her name. The Biblical prophet Jeremiah uses the word name at one point in a way that turns thought toward a spiritual sense of identity: "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts."

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