WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST
There are voices in every age that try to tell us who we are. Some point to our failures, others to our achievements. Some define us by our past, others by our politics, our pain, or our potential. But the gospel does not ask us to construct an identity; it announces one. If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old life has passed away and all has become new (2 Corinthians 5:17). What God has done for us in His Son speaks louder than every competing claim.
To be in Christ is to stand without condemnation. The charge has been answered, the debt has been paid, and there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). Our identity is not suspended over the fragile thread of performance. It rests upon the finished work of the cross. The Father sees us clothed in the righteousness of His Son, not in the stains of yesterday. The believer does not approach God as a tolerated stranger, but as a son welcomed at the table.
Yet this identity comes through death as well as life. We have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer we who live, but Christ lives in us, and the life we now live in the flesh we live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave Himself for us (Galatians 2:20). The old master has been dethroned. The self that once ruled has been nailed to the cross. What remains is a life sustained by faith and shaped by love.
Because we belong to Him, we walk differently. We were once darkness itself, but now we are light in the Lord, and we are called to walk as children of light (Ephesians 5:8). Holiness is not an attempt to earn identity; it is the fruit of it. Sound doctrine forms steady hearts, and steady hearts produce faithful lives.
If you find yourself searching for who you are, look first to Christ. Your truest name is not written by culture or circumstance; it is written in the book of life. You are hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3). Secure. Kept. Defined by grace.
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Lord, anchor my heart in who I am in Your Son. Guard me from believing lesser voices. Teach me to live as one who has been made new, adopted, and set apart for Your glory. Amen.
BDD
