Why Identity Matters

I’ve been pondering yet again, and this time I have been searching the Scriptures for why identity matters.  You can hardly go a day without hearing the word “identity”.   For the record, I believe one’s identity is a very important topic to be discussing.  The subject must be critically addressed, and from a Christian Worldview, using the Bible as our guide.  The moment we count our own opinions and preferences on the same level as God’s Word we are in sinking sand. 

How do you identify yourself? And, what is the most important part of your identity?

There are innumerable ways you can identify yourself and some are even divisive.  Here is the thing though, if you are a follower of Christ, you have been redeemed, forgiven, and born again. You have only one identity, you may belong to many groups but your identity is in and with Christ.  

Here’s why identity matters…

Remember friend, God’s promises display unshakeable certainty that we are forever hidden in Christ.  That said, please be aware that Satan is whispering deceptive, destructive lies about who we are and seeks to destroy us. Let’s renew our minds with the following Bible verses about our Identity in Christ. 

You are…

WONDERFULLY MADE

Psalm 139:13-16 
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

CHOSEN

1 Peter 2:9 

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light

Jeremiah 29:11 
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Ephesians 1:4-5 
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will-

A MASTERPIECE

Ephesians 2:10 
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

KNOWN

Psalm 139:1-4 
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

FORGIVEN

Colossians 2:13-14 
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.

WASHED CLEAN 

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord.  “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,they shall be like wool.

FREE

Galatians 5:1
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

FRIEND

John 15:15 
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

JUSTIFIED

Romans 5:1-2 
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

DELIGHTED IN

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.

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