Have you ever attended a social event (IE: Party, family gathering, community occasion or church meeting) and upon meeting another individual your thoughts race asking such questions as, What do they think about me? Am I making a good impression? Do I connect with them? Etc… Ironically the very people we are inwardly concerned about making a solid first impression on are probably asking similar questions. As the awkward introductions progress into deeper conversations we either find ourselves rambling on or providing such little responses that a new level of anxiety kicks in. Finally the discussion ends with a sigh of relief only to then torture ourselves by revisiting the meeting over and over wishing we had done or said things differently.

Of course there are other individuals that, in such social interactions, are completely self-unaware and say anything they want while thinking or caring very little on what others feel. While some may find such an approach very liberating the reality is such people are often sitting in a corner of the room, alone, with others doing their best to avoid any contact with the individual at all.

In conclusion what both groups of people suffer from are a series of hang-ups. While everyone struggles with different hang-ups the very purpose of a hang up is to hang us up! Of course there is validity in desiring to make a strong first impression as well as possessing an honest and direct approach; but there is also a need for us all to consider others when we are trying to express an opinion or belief.

I have hang-ups, my wife has them, your pastor has them even your banker, doctor, coach and best friend…WE ALL HAVE THEM! But guess what? While we have become used to, and in most cases accepted, hang ups God’s prescribed way of living makes no room for such road blocks in our life and desires us to remove the hang ups for a new image, and confidence, in His identity being manifest in and through our life.

Most, if not all, hang ups come from hurts and offenses that have become so familiar we no longer realize their crippling effects. But what would our life be like if we replaced the hang-ups with a God reality of who He sees us to be and what that life looks and behaves like? “Our lack of identity controls us and keeps us from truly being who He has called us to be.” – Jeannette Johnian

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The covenant promise God extended to Israel (Ezekiel 34:30) echoes loudly to every Christian within the context of everyone knowing He is with us. We can be down, in a dark season or even in a time of blessing and great reward; in either case everyone should know our God is with us and we are His sons and daughters and that reality is far more rewarding than the hang-ups.

What is true of the King is also true of the Kings people and the call from Jesus, to all who will listen and obey, is to draw closer to Him in the higher places. We are all called to be in Him and project His image without the hang-ups that keep us focused inward. It’s time to hang up the hang-ups and pick up our identity in Jesus! God is looking for a people in whom He can declare, through our circumstances, He is our God and we are His people. While the hurts and hang ups may want to keep us bound in a false narrative let us reject the lies and embrace the liberating freedom of an identity in Jesus and how such as likeness will bless others we encounter along life’s way.

Blessings – Pastor JOSHUA

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