Mrs. Evans Here
IllustrationTestimony★★★★MY WIFE and I got married in 1970. On that day a major change took place in her life. Her name changed. Although she had been Lois I.
Cannings, her name became Lois Evans. She had a new identification. We spent the first summer of our marriage in Harlem at 133rd and Lennox. I was involved in a ministry up there.
We stayed, during that ministry time, in an apartment over a church. We’d just been there a day or so when someone called on the telephone and said, “May I speak to Mrs.
Evans?” My wife said, “Hold the line.” She went looking for Mrs. Evans until it dawned on her after she had left the phone that SHE was HER!
She came back to the phone, changed her voice, and said, “Hello, Mrs. Evans here.” She had forgotten who she was. She had forgotten her identity.
When you forget who you are, you don’t act like you should.
The point
When Lois married and became "Mrs. Evans," she forgot her new identity so completely she looked for Mrs. Evans elsewhere—illustrating how we must remember our true identity in Christ.