The Real You
I was once a very confused person. I wanted to be one thing, then I wanted to be another, and then another. I followed the latest whim of what I thought would make me successful and bring fulfillment. I was shaped by my ever changing environment.
We are all products of our environments. Many of us play the chameleon we adapt to whatever environment we are in. This may help us win the game of survivor but will cause identity crisis in the game called life. We play the role of Christian around Christians, we play the role of skeptic around skeptic, or drunk around drunk, etc.
The bible says "a double minded person is unstable in all their ways." An unstable person is up and down, in and out, they seem fine one moment, and suddenly they lose it the next. They start things but don't finish. You cannot expect much from them because of all their uncertainty. Yet I know lot of us Christians that walk this way!
If we are really serious as it says in Colossians 3:1-2 about living a new life in Christ. We need to pursue Him and Him alone. Our life is no longer about mere survival just trying to get though our present circumstances but rather it is about pursuing the will of God, seeing how our circumstances are part of His great big plan.
We need to see from above! Our perspective means everything! As long as we are grounded our present circumstances limit what we can see and therefore do. You see how weather can so change things. So can we change our environment when we dwell in Heavenly places. We have something to offer that the world cannot give, we are change agents.
Yes we are all born into sin, but we have been born-again, we have the Holy Spirit now who is recreating us into are true identity, stripping away lies replacing them with truth. Each day we have a choice how we see the world, we can see through our human eyes which is bound to an earthly limited deception or we can see through spiritual eyes from a heavenly unlimited reality.
The story of Mephibosheth is our story, Lo-Debar means "not-having", or no pasture, it was a place set apart for outcasts, rejects, people were put there not because of their own wrong but because of life's misfortunes. Some of us though we are saved still don't feel like we have any worth, we are victims of what others have done to us, molested, raped, abused, ignored, neglected, but God rich in kindness sent His servant Jesus Christ to redeem us, to take us out of Lo-Debar and bring us to the King's palace, we are no longer a dead dog, we are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, set apart for the glory of God. Though we still may feel crippled from our past, God still calls us to eat with Him at His table as He nourishes our soul, heals our bodies, and transforms our lives into His image.
The Real You is who God is. Our Identity is now in Christ, so let us allow Him to clothe us in the robe of His righteousness, to put on the full armor of God so that we can stand against the wiles of the enemy.
We are all products of our environments. Many of us play the chameleon we adapt to whatever environment we are in. This may help us win the game of survivor but will cause identity crisis in the game called life. We play the role of Christian around Christians, we play the role of skeptic around skeptic, or drunk around drunk, etc.
The bible says "a double minded person is unstable in all their ways." An unstable person is up and down, in and out, they seem fine one moment, and suddenly they lose it the next. They start things but don't finish. You cannot expect much from them because of all their uncertainty. Yet I know lot of us Christians that walk this way!
If we are really serious as it says in Colossians 3:1-2 about living a new life in Christ. We need to pursue Him and Him alone. Our life is no longer about mere survival just trying to get though our present circumstances but rather it is about pursuing the will of God, seeing how our circumstances are part of His great big plan.
We need to see from above! Our perspective means everything! As long as we are grounded our present circumstances limit what we can see and therefore do. You see how weather can so change things. So can we change our environment when we dwell in Heavenly places. We have something to offer that the world cannot give, we are change agents.
Yes we are all born into sin, but we have been born-again, we have the Holy Spirit now who is recreating us into are true identity, stripping away lies replacing them with truth. Each day we have a choice how we see the world, we can see through our human eyes which is bound to an earthly limited deception or we can see through spiritual eyes from a heavenly unlimited reality.
The story of Mephibosheth is our story, Lo-Debar means "not-having", or no pasture, it was a place set apart for outcasts, rejects, people were put there not because of their own wrong but because of life's misfortunes. Some of us though we are saved still don't feel like we have any worth, we are victims of what others have done to us, molested, raped, abused, ignored, neglected, but God rich in kindness sent His servant Jesus Christ to redeem us, to take us out of Lo-Debar and bring us to the King's palace, we are no longer a dead dog, we are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, set apart for the glory of God. Though we still may feel crippled from our past, God still calls us to eat with Him at His table as He nourishes our soul, heals our bodies, and transforms our lives into His image.
The Real You is who God is. Our Identity is now in Christ, so let us allow Him to clothe us in the robe of His righteousness, to put on the full armor of God so that we can stand against the wiles of the enemy.
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