where is your identity anchored to - 34th week tuesday 2018

The Jews identified themselves with the temple.  When the temple was destroyed they lost also their sense of identity, they lost their anchor and there began the second diaspora of the Jews.  An identity anchored on stone, no matter how beautiful, is an identity anchored on flimsy ground, for when the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone, where do you run to?  

And so it is with us.  An identity anchored on possessions, an identity anchored on relationships with loved ones, an identity anchored on career, on work, is an identity anchored on flimsy ground.  What if the possessions are gone, what if our loved ones are taken away from us, what if I am no longer able, I get sick, I am forced to retire, so where will I anchor myself then?

There’s a saying which says, “If you really want to live you have to believe that you are loved beyond the boundaries of this world.”  I believe this is the anchor we are looking for – to believe that you are truly loved beyond the boundaries of this world.  And who loves you beyond all these – God.  So when all these things are taken away, we can still anchor ourselves in the love of God.  We are loved beyond the boundaries of this world.