New Creation Realities - 1
I need to take some time and write about the things I am learning about my identity in Christ. We work with a lot of young people and they all struggle for identity. What is coming at them is confusing them and because they are not grounded in the word they end up feeling “Hybrid.”
Even people that have lived and served Jesus for years are struggling because they were taught wrong. What do we do with that? We have to educate people and train them up in the way they should go.
Let’s start with John 8:32. Jesus makes a statement that rattle everything you have ever believed about yourself. The purpose of God is to have us walk in the freedom of our purpose. The enemy wants us to walk in a lie and his purpose. We are up against the truth or the lie. One will set you free and one will keep you in chains. You choose which one you want.
“You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set your free. – John 8:32
Whenever Truth is present you can be free. Anytime truth is absent you are bound to a life of struggle. Nothing else can set you free. Truth is the thing that God chooses to set you free. Everything else is a lie and will keep you in deception.
Let’s look at that for a second. Truth is not what I believe. Truth is not my doctrine or my dogma. Truth is not defined by theology or ethics. Truth is nothing else but a person and his name is Jesus.
John 14:6 Jesus speaks and says: I AM the Way, the Truth the Life.
To say there is another way is to reject the very one that can set you free. It is not even about what you believe about him, it is do you believe him. Why is this so important to believe him?
First he is the one that created you. The enemy did not have anything to do with it. He doesn’t understand you the way God understands you. Why would you believe him and reject the one that was there before you were born. If you want to know the potential of something ask the creator. If I take my car and try to plow my field I would only end up frustrated. The car was not made for that. If I ask the creator he would tell me why I am struggling. He can direct me to the person that created the tractor and the plow. Do you get my point. There is nothing the enemy can tell you about your purpose because he didn’t create you. He doesn’t mind to abuse you by the way. Stop listening to him.
Secondly you must understand that only truth can break the power of the lie. One lie does not break another lie, it only leads to greater deception. The lie is not what you need to measure things against. Jesus said it in this way: When the blind leads the blind they both fall into the ditch. The only way to destroy the lie is to find the truth about it. That brings us to our first point in identity.
Who are you?
Let’s look at your origin. Where do you come from?
Gen 1 is the key for us to look at. In the first chapter we find a pattern when God created the universe.
Gen 1:11 Then God said let the earth bring forth grass and the herb that yields it seed and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, who’s seed is in itself on the earth and it was so.
What do we see here. God finds a source that can reproduce a plant that has a seed that can reproduce more just like it. The earth would produce all the trees and the plants and grass and they all will be sustained by the earth so that they can reproduce and bring forth more of their own kind. WOW!
Then God looked at the waters and did the same thing.
Gen 1:20 Then God said: Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures.
Again God finds a source and brings out of it the very thing it would sustain. Fish of all kinds and see animals. In them they have the potential to reproduce and multiply and have many more just like them.
Then we read in Gen 1:26. And God said: Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.
Instead of finding a source outside of himself, this time he says, I WILL BE THE SOURCE THAT REPRODUCES SOMETHING. This time I will be the one reproducing something that belongs to this source and they will be able to multiply and reproduce many more just like them.
If you take a tree out of the ground it dies. If you take a fish out of the water it dies. If you take man out of God he dies.
You are one of a kind: No one has your DNA. No one has your finger prints, your eye imprint, your tongue imprint or your teeth imprint. There is no one that can represent you like you. You are one of a kind.
Not only are you one of a kind, you are one of His kind. Because you were created in his image, there is no one that can represent God like you can represent him. Does God have red hair, in you he does. Does God have brown hair, in you he does. You are one of his kind.
Why would we take the enemies word about who we are. You are not a failure. You are beloved and special. Never allow the enemy to steal what God said about you.