Finding Our Identity intro...
Where do you find your identity? In your parents - or their treatment of you? In your partner - or your lack of/ex one...? In your successes - or your failures? In the cheers of your friends - or the condemnation of past voices echoing through your mind whenever confidence is low...?
The Bibles tells us:
Upon inviting Jesus into our heart and lives, upon being restored to God in a loving relationship, of having our sins forgiven and forgotten by Him, we no longer need to identify with our guilt or shame or sins. In God's eyes - through all Jesus has done, and does, for us - we are 'cleansed'. We are made new. We are a new creation. It's as though God took the slate and wiped it clean - which, I just realised, was my prayer to Him the night I cried out to Him 22 years ago. He erases the sins of our past from His memory - unless we keep going there and need healing for it - and looks upon us as we would look upon our new born babe, whom we love with all our heart, who doesn't have to do one single thing to please us. Upon accepting Jesus' offer of forgiveness of sins, of a relationship with God, and eternal life, we are restored like new to God; our relationship with God is restored, with no sin between us. We are now recognised as a child of the Most High God; heir to the Kingdom of Heaven; possessors of His heart; apple of His eye... and so on. :)
However, even in knowing that, I have failed to find confidence in it. I have failed to find my true identity in God. I have failed to find 'me'. I have failed to identify as being the fully loved and fully accepted individual God declares I am. I have failed to find my worth in Him, and therefore have, in the past 22 years, never been able to live up to my full potential or know complete emotional healing and freedom in this world...
Why is that...? Well, that's what I seek to share with you in the blogs that will be posted under the title 'Finding Our Identity'. I am presently seeking God to free me in this area. I am, as you will see, still a work in process. Jesus has set me free, and I am a new creation in Him, but a lie has kept me trapped... It's time that lie was revealed...
However, even in knowing that, I have failed to find confidence in it. I have failed to find my true identity in God. I have failed to find 'me'. I have failed to identify as being the fully loved and fully accepted individual God declares I am. I have failed to find my worth in Him, and therefore have, in the past 22 years, never been able to live up to my full potential or know complete emotional healing and freedom in this world...
Why is that...? Well, that's what I seek to share with you in the blogs that will be posted under the title 'Finding Our Identity'. I am presently seeking God to free me in this area. I am, as you will see, still a work in process. Jesus has set me free, and I am a new creation in Him, but a lie has kept me trapped... It's time that lie was revealed...