How I fit into God’s story matters. My life isn’t just about me and my own personal identity.
My story is a part of God’s bigger story.
This theme was the main point of Sunday’s sermon on July 27, 2025, which focused on the genealogy of Aaron and Moses in Exodus 6:14-27.
Rather than skipping over this wordy genealogy, our pastor wisely used it to explain how God’s word confronts our individualistic mindset.
Genealogies are important in scripture. They show how God establishes through generations the appointment of people used for a specific purpose in God’s orchestrated will.
God had an ordained purpose for Moses and Aaron. He also has an ordained purpose for me.
Applying it to our lives, instead of shrinking our belonging to our own existence, God wants us to think of our identity as people outside ourselves.
Our culture today has an individualistic worldview. We often define ourselves by our own choice of gender or sexuality. And we think our existence begins and ends with us.
We think everything revolves around us. We think, “I get to decide who I am.”
But God has a bigger picture in mind. God wants us to know that He defines our identity. We are part of the family of God.
This concept may challenge our thinking in today’s society, but this idea is about ownership and to whom we belong as people.
In essence, we belong to God.
God wants us to live in His story, not one of our own making.
Ignoring this truth makes us believe lies about our identity, which is covered in this sermon.
Lies that say:
My story is about me.
My story is mine to define.
My story begins and ends with me.
My story rests on me.
God takes ownership of me. He says to me, “You are mine.” Isaiah 43:1b says, "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.”
Thus, my personal belief that I belong to God matters to Him. God decides who I will be.
Through Christ’s blood, He bought me at a price bigger than I can possibly fathom.
We have a security in Christ’s righteousness because we are grafted into God’s covenant.
Therefore, I need to have a loyalty to God, a concept that is at odds with a culture that defines itself on its own.
Our story doesn’t rest on our shoulders but on God’s grace. We are to live the lives that God has ordained for us.
While this truth challenges our view of identity in society today, it can actually be a comfort.
The fact that I belong to God means I matter immensely to Him and that He is going to look out for me, watch over me, and take care of me.
Knowing this truth is priceless–I am grateful that I belong to God.
—Ann Elizabeth Yeager