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True Identity

We all place our identity in something. If someone were to ask us who we are, we could typically define ourselves in one or two words...a physical therapist, teacher, husband, mother, athlete, student, musician, etc. There is usually something about us that we could say, “If I weren’t a ______, or if I couldn’t do ______, I would be nothing.”

Yes, these things contribute to our uniqueness and how we use God’s blessings of love, talents, skills, and intellect to make a living or experience happiness on earth. We may think this is our “calling” in life, however our true calling is to follow the Way, the Truth, and the Life...Jesus Christ (John 14:6; Matthew 16:24).

God has invited us to a restored relationship with him through his son Jesus Christ and calls us to take part in his redemptive work in the world. Our true identity shouldn’t be in the things we are best at or the things we take great pride in. Instead, it should be in the One who makes us beloved sons and daughters, made righteous before God because of his work on the cross. Our identity should be in Jesus Christ because, by his substitutionary sacrifice we are forgiven, holy and blameless. We are perfect. (Col 1:22).

When we place our identity in Christ we no longer have to worry about failure, the approval of others, self-judgement, placing trust in attractive things that will ultimately fail us, or the suffering this life will bring. We know that identity in Christ provides us with hope in a world full of hopelessness, gives us strength in all our weaknesses, and joy unimaginable as we live to glorify God in all that we do.

So, what parts of your life do you hold above your relationship with Jesus? Is it putting more attention on you, or the One who saves you?

“Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.”

‭‭1 John‬ ‭2:15-17‬

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