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It has been 81 days since I came to the United States. As a new immigrant, everything starts from scratch, and there are too many things to deal with on the road to settling down. For example: opening a bank account/credit card, opening a water/electricity/coal/garbage disposal account, finding a school for your child, medical insurance, taking a driver’s license test, etc. Often because of the unfamiliarity of life, language limitations, and the need to adapt to the American work procedures, rules, and slow cycles, many times, I would always fall into a kind of anxiety. This kind of anxiety not only brings stress and a sense of unknown to dealing with the affairs at hand, but also feels that all kinds of things seem to be endless, and one thing after another will come. After a simple devotion one morning, I wondered what else to be grateful for in this state of anxiety. In an instant, what I thought was, my green card status. Earlier, a Korean elder who lived in Los Angeles for many years told me that there are too many people who have lived in the United States for many years without obtaining a legal long-term residence status, and I can get a green card as soon as I arrive in the United States, which is really a grateful thing . Yes, I actually forgot about my identity. Compared with identity, other things, although troublesome, bumpy, and unknown, can always be done one by one. The most important problem has been solved, why should I worry and be anxious? Why not take your time. Then, I think about the identity problem at the faith level. In God’s eternal kingdom, I am also someone who has obtained green card status. How important is this identity. Even though there is injustice, ugliness, and suffering in the world, and there are busy, difficult, and painful lives in my life, the most important thing is that I have attained the status of the kingdom of heaven. My eyes are so easily obscured by affairs that I often forget my identity. Christians, don’t forget, don’t forget, we are already people with a new identity, and we have no worries in life. Nothing in the world is as important as this identity. When you think of our identity, you should be grateful, you know what the heavy price is behind this identity; you should also have joy and hope, how wonderful the eternal kingdom that you can enter with this identity is. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “17 If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, but new things have become.” How short is it, to come in a hurry with nothing, and to go in a hurry without having anything. In this world, people are just travelers. The end of man in this world is only a new beginning in eternity. Depending on the identity you hold, one leads to heaven and one leads to hell. What kind of identity do you want to take? Mark 8:36 says, “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?”
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