"Who was that masked man?"
I must have heard that line a hundred times growing up, watching reruns of The Lone Ranger. At the end of every episode, the townspeople would stand around in awe as the stranger rode off into the sunset, wondering about the identity of their mysterious rescuer.
But it doesn't take a mask to wonder about someone's identity—or your own.
Far too often, we hide behind something—pain from the past, shame we've carried too long, names that were never really ours but somehow stuck.
In Mark 5, Jesus meets a man who's lost his name to chaos. He knows himself only by his wounds. But Jesus doesn't leave him there—he speaks freedom and gives him an identity greater than he could have imagined.
If you've ever wondered who you really are, Jesus offers an identity rooted not in your failures, but in his grace.

What Is Your Name? Mark 5:1-20

Bret Hammond