What ID are you carrying?

When traveling abroad, you know you need a passport. Polish citizens of this generation can travel places our parents' or grandparents' generations could only dream of. Yet we were born on the same strip of land, in the same country.  Or were we?...

When freedom was won back not so long ago, the Poles' identity changed. We joined the Western world, and slowly but surely, we have been able to afford one of its greatest perks. Travel.

There is another kind of citizenship with perks.  In Christ, there are privileges, too.  One of those is being a part of a Kingdom. We come and go as family members of the King -- a citizenship HE won for us. As His child, we are under His care. And His agenda in this world around is ours as well.

We enjoy not just a nationality or citizenship of a nation on this earth, but also an 'over-citizenship'.  That one needs understanding to identify with it, too.

Those of Christ can be more at home with other believers, even when they hail from the farthest corners of the world, than with a neighbor brought up and living nearby for decades.  I have been there and seen that one happen!

We of differing nationalities of this world won't think all the same things; naturally, those inclinations and cultural roots do show themselves. However, in the things that matter, truth found in God's calling to men through grace, life found in serving the Lord who saved us and others in need, the mission of reconciling others to Him as we can until His return--all this brings us together more truly than any cultural identity this world offers.  Even Poles! 😁

Identity is a tricky thing.  What we are and what we think we are may not be the same.  Which ID is ours?

A different citizenship indeed! Life in this world, with its desires and goals, is not just ours. We have exchanged it for a better one.  A new passport. A new life.

Where is your life centered? Where are you travelling, with which 'documents'?