Identity

How do others treat you or identify you? Where do you receive your significance from? What kind of things do you think push you to be who you are? Many of us let others identify us. We take their opinions and viewpoints and let them be what drives us to be who we are. God never intended that for us. Your identity is wrapped up in what God has for you in your life. Our significance comes from who Christ has created us to be. That is what life is all about. Our significance in life comes from doing what Christ wants us to do and not what others think we are.

Super Summer is going great, and everyone has been challenged to looked at their true identity in Christ, and turn over the labels that have been placed upon us by others. Ephesians 4: 22 says, "you were taught, with regard to your old self, which is being cprrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds." The challenge stands for all of us to evaluate the true identity of who we are in Christ. This challenge takes place on a daily basis just like Jason Bourne faced. There is a battle taking place in each one of our lives to discover the true identity of ourselves. This battle is something that Satan continues to push because if he can get us thinking about everything else, everyone elses thinks about us, he can strike in our weakness and deal us a crushing blow.

I want to encourage each of you with the truth of God's word and let you know your identity has aleready been defined not by others but in Christ, the author of salvation and the perfecter of our faith.