Mistaken Identity

          Every now and then you hear about a case of mistaken identity.  That is, someone is mistaken for someone else.  I have been mistaken for another Baptist preacher twice in my life.  He is famous.  I am not.  Mistaken identity  can happen.  I remember as a very little boy that I was assigned to sit on the front step while my parents got ready to go out.  I had already been cleaned up so they didn't want me to get messed up again.  While on the front steps, I looked down the right and saw what I presumed to be a small frog.  I was fascinated with it and was about to play with it when my mother came out.  She took one look at it and knew that it wasn't a frog.  It was a small garter snake.  While the snake is harmless, no snake could come that close to my mother without causing great alarm.  Naturally, Dad was summoned to take care of the snake.  As far as I was concerned, the head of still looked like a friendly frog.  We often do mistake some things for other things.  The question now is, Do you resemble a Christian?  John 17:21 says, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."  
         We often assume that the Christian is one who looks like one in that he or she has a certain type of Bible, the necessary amount of bumper stickers or crosses that would indicate that we are believers in Christ.  However, as we have often mentioned about this verse, a believer is noted by the unity of the believers and not by the size of the Bible.  Oh, that doesn't mean that we agree on every small point, but we are in agreement on the big issues such as the inerrancy of Scriptures, the virgin birth, the substitutionary work of Christ on the Cross, the deity of Christ and many other major doctrines.  There are many things in the Bible that are very clear and don't require a lot of interpretation.  If we want to have a good witness then there should be a sense of unity with the brothers and sisters in Christ.  The result of such a witness will be the testimony to the world that the Father indeed did send the Son.  Praise God for sending His Son to die for our sins on the cross of Calvary.  Are you a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ or is it just a another case of mistaken identity?