Identity.

What do you identify yourself by? What makes you who you are? Is it your relationships? Your major or college degree? Your profession? Your strengths? Your weaknesses? Your passions? Your hobbies?

It’s so easy to get wrapped up in our worldly identity and forget our primary identity–our identity in Christ. We are His. We are created by Him and for Him. We are dead to ourselves and alive through His Spirit. We are made perfect through His blood. We are made to glorify Him forever.

Oh, how quickly we forget Whose we are.

I am not my relationships.
I am not my training/degree.
I am not my job.
I am not my gifts.
I am not my failures.
I am not my location.
I am not my income.

I am not a daughter, grandchild, sister, best friend, mentor or future wife.

I am not an Intercultural Ministry major.

I am not a writer, a speaker, a tutor, a worship leader, a missionary.

I am not intelligent, funny, organized, insightful or passionate.

I am not envious, judgemental, selfish, controlling or proud.

I am none of these…

When I stand before the throne of God at the end of my earthly life, these are not the things that God will see. These are not the things that will define who I am. Jesus Christ will be my definition. He will be my identity.

I am a naked soul clothed in the righteousness of Christ.

Oh, that we would live our lives in such a way that we are daily becoming more and more like Christ. May it be that with each new day the cry of our mouths will mirror the cry of our hearts as we proclaim “More of You and less of me.” Lord, may You be my identity.

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