The Acid Test of A Christian

Can you tell me who your parents are?  How do you know you are their child?  Many of us might point to our physical characteristics.  Having a nose like our dad, or eyes like our mom.  Or maybe our attitudes and habits.  You might jingle your keys in your pocket like your dad, or love baking like your mother.

But how about your heavenly Father?  How do you know you are His?  It can't be through our looks, so maybe it is through other ways.  People try a few common ways.

1.  Orthodoxy.  It's what you know and don't know that makes you a christian.
2. Actions.  Still others might say it's not what you know, its how you act that proves your faith.
3.  Experience.  Others say a christian needs to be able to point to a defining experience in their life.

But all of these tests fail to meet the standard for who is a christian and who is not.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 points us to the true acid test of a Christian.   A standard that holds up in all storms, all stages of life, all places in the world.

For momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.  

A Christian is someone who knows whose they are. Who they belong to, who fights for them, and where they fit in all of time.  A Christian can stand up and say with Paul, that the glory of God is beyond all comparison.