True Identity

Identity speaks to who we are. Our cultural definition of identity includes our strengths, weaknesses, interests, associations, appearance and beliefs, among other things. From a faith-perspective, however, identity has more to do with relationships and to whom we belong. For those who are Christ-followers, the following Scriptures instruct us on the basis of our identity:

Romans 8:37-39

Our identities are fused to God in Christ. Once that has happened, nothing can change it:

"In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

1 Corinthians 5:17

This passage speaks to the fact that we have new identities. Not new as in “someone completely different”, but rather as in “renewed and revitalized”:

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

1 Peter 2:9

A result of this redemption is a new identity, which the Apostle Peter so passionately articulates here:

But you are a chosen race, A royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; *

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