Our Identity

What is our identity?

How do we obtain an identity?

Our identity can sometimes

be what others have said about us.

Or because of harsh things

we've gone through in our lives,

we identify with being a victim.

Other times, we find our identity 

in a doctors diagnosis 

and all our lives we are this person

and we go about with that label

and let everyone around us know

that we are this disorder or that.

This struggle for our identity

is a very real struggle.

Even when we have gotten beyond 

some of those labels from our past

and God has healed us,

there are situations we encounter 

and people we rub elbows with

who may try to shake us 

from our true and genuine identity.

Jesus came to seek and save the lost.

He came to turn men from their identity

with sin and darkness 

and to reveal Himself.

He came to show you your true identity.

In Christ we are sons of God.

We are chosen and dearly loved.

We are children of the light.

And we are filled 

with all the fullness of God.

So when your thoughts try

and tell you who you are

from your past and old dead self,

remind it out loud 

who you really are in Christ.

You identify with Him now.

No longer a victim.

No longer mentally ill.

No longer rejected.

So long to that old dead self.

You have been transformed.

AND you are being transformed

by the renewing of your mind.

So set your mind on things above

and never dwell on that old identity

or any other identities that try

to resurrect and destroy you.

You are a new creation in Christ Jesus.

Period.