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I recently received a newsletter from Neil Crofts, who promotes authentic leadership. In this newsletter he talks about the importance of status, and how conflict and untruth rise up from our strive for status.

Neil says that often the real reason behind conflict more is about status then greed or religious differences. All luxury goods are based on desire for status.

Why is status so important? Status represent our value and the feeds our identity. Status reflects our identity, and if the status are destroyed, so are our facade, dignity and self value connected to our identity.

God take stuff away from us

So why would God take stuff away from us, instead of blessing us? Well, first of all, by taking the stuff away, he is blessing us. God always act out of love, because that’s who He is.

Also he takes stuff away, because He wants to change our identity. By removing our status, it shakes our identity.

If I now longer possess the status, I need to seek status and value somewhere else. Namely He wants us to seek our Kingdom identity. He wants us to realise that our value is not connected to earthly status, but to Kingdom value.

The items of status can be really anything that feed our ego. It can be our career, car, house, education, business. And what can be even more difficult to understand: It can be our service for God, posture in our church and our view and relationship with God.

Because our earthly service and posture in church is not the same as our Heavenly identity.