So! I have briefly read through each of the chapters we will be studying this week in CHRISTLife: Embracing Your True and Deepest Identity. As always, Mrs. Myers shares the Truth and additional godly images that encourage us to say “I AM what God says I am!” (Are you more and more believing it? Can you say it wholeheartedly?)
This week’s chapters are:
Always A Receiver…focusing on grace, grace, and more grace!
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am,
and His grace to me was not without effect.
New Altogether…take God at His Word; and see yourself as the new creation that He has made you to be!
Colossians 3:9 and 10
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self
with its practices and have put on the new self,
which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator.
Empowered…In Christ we have absolutely all the strength we will ever need to do any thing that He calls or commands us to do!
Philippians 4:13
I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me
[I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him
Who infuses inner strength into me;
I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency].
Enlightened…No longer do we dwell and walk in darkness! Let your little light shine!
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”
made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light
of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
(And then as we jump into Part Three, Three Pillars of our New Identity)
Belonging… to God because of His love that accepts us into union with Himself!
Ephesians 2:19
Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants, and aliens,
excluded from the rights of citizens), but you now share citizenship
with the saints; and you belong to God’s [own] household.
And throughout each of the chapters we study this week, there seems to me to be an underlying message that is communicated throughout—giving praise to God for the Truth of our identity. As we continue to look at the facts of just who we are in Christ and faithfully replace the old, negative images (lies) with the Truth and reality of our True eternal, spiritual life.
- We can praise Him for the new creation we are and the new life we are living.
- We can praise Him that through Jesus we, who are weak, are made strong.
- We can praise Him that we can see because ‘in His light we see light.”
- We can praise Him for all that His precious, unconditional, everlasting Love brings into our lives.
- We can praise Him that we will never again be on the outside…through Jesus’ blood we now belong.
- We can praise and thank Him wholeheartedly declaring “I AM who God says I am!”
