Have you ever looked at where you find your identity? We all know the Sunday School answer – Jesus! And while that’s the correct answer, is that true for us? For you? For me?

Who you are is synonymous with what you do. That doesn’t mean you have to follow a bunch of check boxes for the Sunday School answer to be true. But if you want to know what someone believes? Look at how they live (us, too).

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17

In Christ, we have a new identity. An identity no one can touch. An identity that is held in the very hand of God. An identity that Jesus died for. His victory over death, not our failures, is our identity.

“But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.” Acts 2:24

We are defined by our relationship to Him.

“You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” John 15:14-15

If we’re not in relationship with Jesus, He can’t make known to us all He’s heard from the Father. And that relationship is so much more than the occasional Bible reading, attending church on Sundays, etc. It’s a way of life. It’s repentance. (Acts 2:38, 3:19) It’s surrender. We surrender because we are in Christ. And because we are in Christ, we make the hard choices, we fight against this world – no matter what it says, and we walk in Him. Leonard Ravenhill said, “Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.”

“He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the LORD require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?”
Micah 6:8

Our identity is in Christ. Not our social status or economic status or health conditions or politics or political party or the government. Not even our sin.

‘Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”‘ John 3:3

“This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 1:5-7

Christ is our identity.

I hope you have a great week!

by His grace,
Jodi

“Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord;and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:29-31