Who Are You?
1 Peter 2:9 NIV
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.
Who are you?
When someone asks us that question, the first thing we typically mention is one of the duties or roles we perform daily. I’m a doctor. I’m a Lawyer. I’m a Student. I’m a writer. But, that’s actually not who we are; that’s what we do.
It’s understandable that our response is to tell someone what we do. It’s as natural as breathing because what we do, well, it’s what we do every day. Whether we like what we do or not, it can’t be what defines us. If it is, our identity will be misplaced because our jobs and roles will change throughout our lives. And with a misplaced identity, we live a life with little contentment and one always striving for acceptance.
As Christ followers, our identity comes from who God says we are, not who others say we are. Yet, every day we believe things about ourselves that are untrue. These untruths don’t line up with the Truth about us according to the Bible. Not only is it easy to assume our identities from what we do—often, we’re labeled by those around us: loser, failure, nobody, coward etc.
These descriptions are not who we are. We are defined by who God says we are as we see clearly from the scriptures. And it is important that we allow God’s definition of us be that we old on to as against what we are seeing ourselves now; You are forgiven, your His Child, you are blessed and favoured…
