What is an "identity?"
Is it what we wear? Is it what we look like, what we sound like, what kind of habits we have? Is it what kind of music we listen too or what type friends we have? Is it what kind of food we eat? Is it what kind of job we have or what type of car or truck we drive? Does it depend on whether or not we are Assemblies of God, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Mormon, Seventh Day Adventist, or Non-Denominational? Is our identity dependent upon the people we spend the most time with? Does it depend upon who is closest to us? Or is it something that is much deeper…is it something that we all have to journey into the heart of God to find…to find out just what our TRUE identity is…the identity that God intends for us to have? Now, all of these things make us apart of who we are on the outside…what people see… but I'm talking about something deeper…an identity of the soul.
God makes us all different for a reason, he gives us all different gifts for a reason, and he blesses us all differently for a reason…take a journey with me…a journey of how I have found my identity in Christ Jesus.
All my life my friends, sports, music, and what people thought about me has set the mold of who I would have become…what the world would have wanted me to become. The day I gave my life to Jesus all of this changed…yes, I still loved sports and music and hanging out with friends but these things did not tell me what I was to become…but for some reason I was at a standstill of who I thought I was…what my identity was. For six years I thought I knew who I was, who I was in Christ and who God has called me to be…but all that has changed.
For the past three and a half months I have been growing and maturing not just physically and mentally but even more so spiritually. God has shown me who he TRULY is…how personable he can be, how loving he can be, how much he actually speaks to me…and the Holy Spirit has become my best friend. It has taken three and a half months to come to the realization that I am a man of God, that I have authority over the enemy, that I am a saint, that I have the heart of David, that I can walk in the Spirit all day, that I have to abide in the presence of God or I will fall on my own…I have come to the realization that without God the Father I am absolutely nothing.
My “identity” is now what God thinks of me…its following the example of Jesus and listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit. No longer do the things of this world tell me who I am but what my Father thinks of me…that is what will determine who I am and who I am to become.
“The heart of a man plans his way but the LORD establishes his steps”
–Proverbs 16:9
For the longest time I planned my own way but God changed my plans…he has established new steps for my life…and because of this I have come into my true identity…
So I want to ask you…what has made up your true identity?
