Status

I'm not even sure how to write this one. I've been noticing lately a lot of things having to do with "status". I've seen so many people lately wrapping themselves up into a status symbol. Where does their identity lie? Where does your identify lie?

I don't know what it is, but when I see someone focus so much on what they have or don't have or what they got to impress others, I just don't know what to say or think. I had a lady walk into work the other day (I work at a clothing store) and she walks in with her coffee "to go" cup from the nearby coffee shop. First of all, you are in a clothing store...how are you going to shop with a drink in your hand, and not only that, how do expect us to react when we see a drink in your hand and you are going to go through all our clothes and NOT spill? Really?

So I cringe at those things first. But then I thought...why is this person doing this? Could they really NOT sit at the coffee shop and drink the coffee? Or was in more that they wanted to walk in to a place full of people so that all could see that you have coffee. And not only that...what is it about coffee shops that are so "status symbol" related? And sure enough...this lady waved this coffee cup around like no ones business. She made it know they went to get the coffee shop and she kept the mug right in our faces too. We get it, you drink coffee, so? I drink H2O! I know I shouldn't care or I shouldn't JUDGE.

But I feel like this has been at the for-front of a lot of things to me lately. And what is it that, you God, are showing me through this? Is it more the fact that I don't want to be that person. That I don't want to be the person that finds their identity in an object, a status symbol? Or are you trying to show me how to love these people, and have them see what true identity in Christ is? That these people don't have to wrap themselves into a status of what people think of them because you go to coffee shops, or you have the latest of technology, or the newest car, or the executive corporate job, or whatever it might be; but more so that you can wrap yourself into the love of Jesus Christ and HE doesn't look at where you go, what you have, or how you use it, but more so how you treat people, love people, and can help and encourage people. Where is your status? Are you more focus on what others think of you or what God thinks of you? Where is my status? I sure hope my status is wrapped up in Jesus Christ and doing my best for him. Sure, I mess up, EVERY day, but I try my hardest do love on people and just help them. Lord Jesus, I just want my identity to be in YOU, no one else, no place, no object, nothing...Just you! Please help me daily to see that I keep focused on you and not on other things. How do I look past these thing and not let these people or things that I see bother me? Lord Jesus, help me to love on these things and not judge either. I don't want to look at a person because I'm feeling a "status" thing coming out from them. Again, who am I to judge. Help me to look past that Lord.