This is a time of identity fraud.
So much business is electronically transacted that valuable information about yourself can be kept in hundreds or thousands of places.
Your Social Security number and drivers license are unique to you.
Armed with either, a thief could start you on a long, difficult journey of financial trouble.
Pretending to be you, a line of credit is opened in your name and purchases are made.
Who gets the bill?
You do!
Enabled with your banking information, thieves could empty your bank account in a matter of seconds, leaving you penniless and holding-the-bag for overdraft fees.
(Now I don’t know all there is about identity theft but there is much on the Internet about it.)
But I noticed in the Bible a story on identity theft when some men tried to do something in the Name of Jesus.
Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.
And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”
Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. Acts 19:13-17
When it comes to being a Christian, are you the real deal or have you just stolen the identity?
Do you operate in a way that you could be identified as a Christian?
Don’t be one of those that say, “I’m a Christian” but don’t live up to the Name; having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 2 Tim 3:5
Get real with God!