THE CHRISTIAN NEED NEVER TO SUFFER AN IDENTITY CRISIS

"Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."—Romans 6:4

 

You may have heard how thieves are stealing people’s identities and then pretending to be them they steal all their money and create devastation in people’s lives.   Jesus told us that the thief comes to steal, kill and to destroy in John 10:10.  He went on to say in this same verse that He came that we might have life and that more abundantly.   Satan has been stealing the Christians’ identity for decades. 

 

It all started in the Garden of Eden when Satan came and told Eve a lie that if she ate of the tree of life that she would not die.  Eve believed the lie ate the forbidden fruit and gave to her husband Adam he ate of it also, and immediately they became identified with a new nature—death.  God made the simple rule that “…the soul who sins shall die” Ezekiel 18:4, and in Romans 6:23 it is repeated as “the wages of sin is death…”   You see prior to eating from the forbidden tree, Adam and Eve had never been separated from God and when they ate immediately sin separated them from God.  Not only was Adam and Even separated from God, but all of humanity were brought under this identity crisis—separated from God “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12). 

 

The good news is that Jesus Christ, God’s Son, came and restored humanity back to God through His death, burial and resurrection.  “Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.  For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous” (Romans 5:18-19).

 

Too many times, the enemy lies to us and brings thoughts into our minds with thoughts of failure, hopelessness and fruitlessness.  However words and actions such as these can never be associated with God our Jehovah.   God has and never will be associated with—linked with failure.  God’s Word never fails, becomes obsolete or comes to an end.  He is the God of hope and His fruit shall remain.  We could reference many many Scriptures associated with success, hope and bearing fruit; however, I want to encourage you to look up these scriptures and mediated upon them.  Because when you do, they get into you and they will change how you think about yourself.  Your mental image of your identity will change and you will begin to see yourself identified with the Christ the healer (see yourself healed and whole), Christ the Deliverer (see yourself free from hindrances in your life), Christ the Savior (see yourself saved and set free). 

 

Once you have accepted Christ as your Savior your identity changes from death to life, from sickness to health, from poverty to wealth, from spiritual death to spiritual alive.  Never again do you have to accept anything less than the true king and priest that Christ has paid a great price for you to be.  I urge you to renew your ideal of your true identity today.

 

Prayer—Heavenly Father I repent for identifying with ideals of poverty, sickness and disease instead of identifying with my true identity of health, freedom, success, and wealth, in Jesus Name.  Amen.