Identity Resolution

This past weekend my beautiful bride preached a sermon called Identity Resolution. Her main theme was that we need to find our identity in Christ and not in our circumstances or what we have been told growing up. I may be a little bias, but I think she did an amazing job.

I think for too many of us, we approach the New Year with this thought that we get a clean slate that gives us this special power to change our lifestyle from the previous year. We somehow think by changing some habits or starting new ones that we are going to be better than the year before. Oh how I wish this was true. Because in theory, if we all stayed true to our resolutions we would by the end of our lives be perfect. But unfortunately it is not true.

The only truth that we do have is Jesus Christ. He is the one that we should be changing for. He is the one that we should be trying to be like. We need to find our identity in Him. Not in whether we can quit smoking, lose so much weight, be a better spouse, or a better parent. Those things will come from a relationship with Christ.

So if you want to experience a new life in the new year, then seek out Jesus and all of His truth for your life. Because He chose us.

Ephesians 1:4,7 (AMP)-

4. Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.

7.In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor,