What’s Your Identity?

We hear much these days about identity theft. In fact, there’s an entire industry devoted to protecting your identity. We take steps to protect ourselves from the identity thieves with passwords and RFID wallets. Even so, your identity may be stolen or compromised by a hacker or a thief who captures your password or your personal details.These cyber crimes are a fact of life in our digital age.

But is our identity really determined by our bank account or our social security number or our social media presence? Of course not!

For those of us who belong to Christ, our identity is defined much differently.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.”                          (Ephesians 1:3-4 NASB)

This is our true identity. Not a set of digits. Not a social media page. Not a public persona. Our identity is in Christ.

Blessed.

Chosen.

Predestined.

Adopted.

Redeemed.

Forgiven.

All this is ours, and more, in Christ. 

And this has been lavished on us by a loving Heavenly Father so that we might live “that we who hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.” (Ephesians 1:12 NASB)

As you and I begin this new week, my prayer is that we we remember who we are in Christ. And that we may each live to the praise of His glory. Amen.