IDENTITY – PART 1
I AM A CHILD OF GOD. YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD.
This is critical. It does not matter whether your parents were good to you or bad to you growing up. It does not matter if your parents were always around or absent, God is the Father you never had. Many of us have had wounds left upon our hearts because of the circumstances of life in this fallen world. Some of us have a big pain in our lives from neglect, abuse, rejection or betrayal we may have suffered. My identity was scared with the feeling of being abandoned.
Even to this day when I face trouble or a trial in life, in my mind I will ask “have I been abandoned?” “God have You abandoned me?” I ask myself these questions because I was conditioned with that false reality and then I allowed the accompanying lies of world, flesh and devil to take hold in my spirit. You and I have a great need to look to the Word of God for the Truth. We must replace the lies in our lives with the Truth. Our first identity that must be the foundation of who we know we are has to be: “I are a child of God.”
God paid a large price to adopt you and me. Jesus’ death on the Cross frees us from fear and gives an inheritance both here and now and in the life to come. His inheritance is to make us a chosen people. God chose you and I to give each of us an incredible life. God wants to give each of us back the identity that the evil one has stolen.
John 10:10 (NIV) (Jesus says) “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
IDENTITY – WHAT DOES GOD SAY ABOUT YOU AND ME?
Genesis 1:27 (NCV) So God created human beings in His image. In the Image of God He created them. He created them male and female.
When He looked at you and I, His prized creations, He said that we were very good.
Genesis 1:31 (NCV) God looked at everything He had made, and it was very good…
So God is completely pleased with you and I as His creations. If you look at your hand and your fingerprints, there is not another person that has ever been or will ever be that has those prints or that is like you. You have the DNA of heaven. You are treadured. You are awesome to God. He made only 1 like you. He was pleased in His making of you.
Genesis 2:7 (KJV) And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
You and I were created in the very image of God. God made our bodies from the “stuff” of the earth and He breathed His very breath of life into us and we became a human soul. Our Soul is our mind, our will and our emotions. We are made up of 3 parts yet we are 1. We are created in the very Image of God. (Psalm 139:13-17)
Genesis 1:26 (NIV) Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our Image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Colossians 1:16 (NIV) For in Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; ALL THINGS HAVE BEEN CREATED THROUGH HIM AND FOR HIM.
We are sons and daughters of the Most High God. “I AM A CHILD OF GOD.“
Let this Truth sink deep down into your spirit and soul as it is guaranteed again and again in the Word of God:
John 1:12-13 (NIRV) Some people did accept Him. They believed in His Name.
He gave them the right to become children of God. To be a child of God has nothing to do with human parents. Children of God are not born because of human choice or because a husband wants them to be born. They are born because of what God does. (Psalm 27:10)
2 Corinthians 6:18 (NIRV) “I will be your Father. You will be my sons and daughters,” says the Lord who rules over all.
Romans 8:14-16 (NIRV) Those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. You didn’t receive a Spirit that makes you a slave to fear once again.
Instead you received the Holy Spirit, Who makes you God’s child. By the Spirit’s power we call God “Abba.” Abba means Father. The Spirit Himself joins with our spirits. Together they give witness that we are God’s children.
Our identity is no longer from the “stuff” of earth. Our identity does not come from what we accomplish in this world. Our identity is not based on the lies of the world, flesh or devil. Our identity does not depend on titles the world puts on us, fame we may gain, rituals we may go through, money and possession we may earn or by us trying to please everyone around us. God is pleased with us because of what Jesus did on the Cross.
1 John 3:1 (NIRV) How great is the love the Father has given us so freely! Now we can be called children of God. And that’s what we really are! The world doesn’t know us because it didn’t know Him.
May the Truth set you and I free from the fearful thought patterns, bad habits and addictions we have picked up along the way to help us cope with our pains and the emptiness of a lost identity. May our knowing the Truth of who God created us to be give FREEDOM.
Galatians 5:1 (NIV) It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
All of God’s Love to you,
Gary and Debbie Landon
