Have you ever taken a job where you found out your job description was different than your original understanding?
We all, at some point in life, find this to be true. Sometimes, we find ourselves at loss, scratching and clawing to find direction, purpose, and identity. Other times, we find ourselves on a journey; an intense continuation of finding who we are. These are good things.
In Luke 10, Jesus sends out seventy and commissions them to the nations with a hard task ahead; a difficult yet fruitful task.
After this expedition of discovering the greatness stored within, those seventy returned with joy and excitedly told Jesus, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” You see, they went on this heart twisting yet identity discovering journey and returned with a firm foundation of what they had been given and who they were as sons and daughters of God.
I can only imagine their reaction as Jesus said what He did next, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you…"
I'm sure this was crushing to their spirits, especially after a great amount of time of exercising and experiencing being empowered with the Holy Spirit.
Jesus finishes with this, "…but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” In other words, "rejoice that you are mine." Jesus brought them back to the one foundational truth, the foundational truth of worship.
It's easy to get wrapped up in the works of the Lord and think that our identities are in the power that we have been given, yet Jesus reminds us to rather rejoice in knowing that we are His and stand firm on the fact that our identities are in that we belong to Jesus – nothing more, nothing less.
Everything in your life flows from your worship.
What or who are you worshipping?
