One in Jesus Christ
What Is An Identity?
Your identity comes from the things in your life that define you. It might be a title of relationship in your life or the work you do. It could also be the hobbies you enjoy or the people you’re around. Your identity also comes from the values and morals that you keep. Believing in certain topics or ideas narrows your identity to certain groups and columns. Your identity is never final. It changes with every interest you have, new relationships that come, and new opinions you develop.
Christ Changes Your Identity
When a person accepts Christ as their Saviour, they are possibly changing their identity and doing a complete 180. Before Christ, it’s possible that they were a part of the complete opposite of what Christ represents. When they accept Jesus, their identity becomes intertwined with His.
Jesus is the Constant, and we are the variables. We are always changing but Christ stays the same. He doesn’t mould around us, we mould ourselves around Him. To find out who you are in Christ, you must first realise what He does in your life.
We no longer chase after our desires
When looking back on our own identity before Christ, it was defined as our own interests, relationships, and titles. When we become Christ-followers, it becomes completely about Him. What I can do to bring glory to God today? How can I invite God into the challenges of my life? How can I further God’s Kingdom? These questions bring ourselves and our identity into a place that becomes more about God and less about ourselves.
We stop comparing ourselves
When we realise this world has a greater purpose, our daily life and trials become minimal. Before we were trying to keep up with everyone and everything around us. In competition to have the best things. When we accept Christ in our lives, we receive the very BEST thing we could ever imagine. Suddenly the things we thought we wanted, don’t seem so important anymore. When Christ enters our lives, we receive an identity that reflects His own.
We stop fearing the future
God has a plan for everyone He calls into service. When we find that out, we stop wondering what will happen to us. We realise that God’s plan is all we need and we no longer are afraid of what’s going to happen in the end.
The Bible about our Identity Christ?
We are Children of God/ John 1:12 says, “But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.”
We are Adopted/ Eph 1:5 says, “God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.”
We are No Longer Slaves/ Rom 6:6 says, “We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.”
We are Complete in Jesus/ Col 2:9-10 says, “For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.”
We are The Body of Christ/ 1 Cor 12:27 says, “Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”
We are A Chosen People/ 1 Pet 2:9 says, “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
We are One in Christ/ Gal 3:27-28 says, “for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
We are a Temple for The Holy Spirit/ 1 Cor 6:19-20 says, “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your bodies.”
We are His Workmanship/ Eph 2:10 says, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
We are a New Creation/ 2 Cor 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
We are Crucified With Christ/ Gal 2:20 says, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”
We are a Friend of Jesus/ John 15:15 says, “I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.”
We are Heirs With Christ/ Rom 8:17 says, “And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.”
We are Created in the Likeness of God/ Eph 4:24 says, “And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
We are Citizens of Heaven/ Phi 3:20 says, “But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Saviour.”
We are Ambassadors for Christ/ 2 Cor 5:20 says, “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”