Identifying Your Identity.

We tend to look in different meanings for us to define who we really are, thus, searching for our identity which determines the purpose that we want to live. Admit it or not, most of us have associated ourselves with different things, places, events, and people that implicitly affect our sense of identity.Which when left unguarded makes our thinking and seeing of ourselves become different and be influenced from how God thinks and sees of us.

Yes, we have heard it a lot of times that our identity is found in Christ. But how from that hearing it has produced faith in the inside of ourselves and experienced the fruition of it?

Even the Apostle Paul was not exempted in this tussle between who he was and who he really is. He has the rights to brag on what he has acclaimed in his life back then and he thought that the identity he’s living out in the past will fully define the course of his life. Until he encountered Christ.

Through revelation, a new identity was birthed out from the inside of him. So strong to the point that he forsook his earthly identity in order for him to gain his identity in Christ. Take note that his ardor in his mission to do what God has called him to do didn’t relied only when he first knew who He is in Christ. It was produced when he claimed and grasped it for himself.

He realized that what he knew wasn’t enough to sustain him from every circumstances that he faced. And for him to withstand all of it, he made an effective way to affirm himself His purpose as to why He has gone too far for this. The secret was he did not settle himself by just knowing who He is. He identified and claimed himself fully rooted in Christ. 

From the place of knowing, he progressed in the position of identifying. 

And that strengthened Him completely that made him endure it even more until the end. And his words written in Galatians reflects the gravity of it.

Yes. It’s a good thing to know first who we are in Him. But it does not need to stop there. The situations, your circumstances and this world will try to undermine your godly knowledge about who you really are. And as we are continually growing up in Christ, unless we fully identify ourselves in the knowledge of who we are in Him (and who He is to us) and claim it, we cannot see the fruit of our knowledge produce its effect in our lives, leaving us in a state of frustration and exasperation.

But the rules of the game begins to change when we fully identify ourselves with Him. It starts to liberate us from the influences and the prejudices of this world.Knowing your identity makes you discover what you can do but identifying your identity establishes who you really are. Claiming its reality for yourself changes everything.

It is noteworthy for us to know that we are loved. Accepted in the beloved.A new creature in Christ.The righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Having the mind of Christ. A child of God. Forgiven. Redeemed.Free.Sanctified. Victorious. More than conquerors. Blessed. And so on and so forth.

The Apostle Paul spoke that and claimed that, and so do you. All of those things mentioned above are a fact stated in the divine old book. By having this grasp of identifying our identity that’s solely anchored in Christ, right then and there only that those insecurities, anxieties, and worries in our lives become dispelled.

By the way, this identity is not something that you have struggled to achieve. It is who you really are.You just need to identify it in yourself. It’s yours already. Just activate it. Through Christ.