Identity In Christ

Getting right with God always begins with settling once and for all the issue that God is your loving Father and you are His accepted child. That’s the foundational truth of your spiritual identity. You are a child of God, you are created in His image, you have been declared righteous by Him because of your faith in Christ. As long as you believe that and walk accordingly, your daily experience of practical Christianity will result in growth. But when you get your eyes off your identity, and try to produce in your daily experience the acceptance God has already extended to you, you’ll struggle. We don’t serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted, so we serve God. We don’t live for Him in order to be loved; we are loved, so we reckon ourselves dead for Him.

That’s why you are called to live by His faith (Galatians 2:20, KJV). The essence of the victorious Christian life is believing what is already true about you. Do you have a choice? Of course! Satan will try to convince you that you are an unworthy, unacceptable, sin-sick person who will never amount to anything in God’s eyes. Is that who you are? No, you are not! You are a saint whom God has declared righteous. Believing Satan’s lies will lock you in to a defeated, fruitless life. But having faith in God’s truth about your identity will set you free.

Get the firm unshakeable conviction deep in your heart of who you are in Christ. The truest thing about you is what God says about you. Have faith in it, confess it and never confess or say otherwise, no matter how you may think or feel at the time. If you have been genuinely born again, then you may stand on what God says, because then it applies to you. Knowing and frequently reaffirming who you are in Christ is your basis and ground for overcoming every spiritual conflict. “No weapon formed against you will prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of all God’s servants, and their righteousness is from Me, says the Lord.” (Isaiah 54:17)

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