image and identity.

Have you ever been asked the question "who are you?" Maybe it's followed by a long pause, while your mind races through decades of events and a plethora labels you title yourself with (leader, mother, son, artist, funny, etc.) Maybe you are certain, cause you took time to create an image for yourself. But an image is not our identity. If you have made Jesus Christ lord of your life, you chose to put you identity in him completely.

Picture yourself: It's early in the foggy morning, you are standing in the woods alone, nothing but the flora and fauna about you...

I believe that there are tons of aspects that makes us, us. There are things we are born into, that we cannot change. There are things we have control over, for instance our choice of education, friends, and even the clothes we wear (that's not totally vain!). And there is something completely different, the spiritual side of our identity. Who we are in Christ: righteous, his child, heir, ambassador, his workmanship, his friend, we are loved, new creatures, more than conquerers, and people of promises. You see, the things we chose are like a fog we stand in, it's surrounding us, but it comes and goes. The things we cannot change, like our family, the state you were born in, your height... are like the flora. The flora is surrounding us too, even poison ivy, maybe the things in our past aren't pretty. But who we are, what we're all about it this: the ground we stand on, we are connected to it, trusting in it, it holds us up, it supports us; that is our identity in Christ in this picture.

If you don't know the ground you are standing on or if you feel like things surrounding you define you... I pray you come to realize the awesome avenue God created to Himself through the death of his son, Jesus Christ. You can know who you are. You are HIS.

Thankfully,

Hannah