It has been said and it is true that one of the greatest crises in life is the identity crisis. Today, we’re living in a society where people have lost their identity and forgotten who they are. This should not be our portion as children of God. We must remember our identity. The moment we begin to forget who we are and why Jesus Christ died for us, we begin to move out of God’s will.
In the epistles, the Holy Ghost reveals to the Christian his identity: who he is, what he can do, his nature and his origin, his new status, and his inheritance in Christ. All that is left for us to do is to get into the Word of God and discover ourselves in Him. Nobody will do this for us; it is our responsibility, and as we do this, the ministry of the Word of God will transform our lives into the picture that we see in His Word.
We must never lose sight of our calling as the children of God; it is the highest calling any one could ever have in this life and we must esteem it highly. It is priceless. The Bible says that we were not redeemed by silver or gold, but with the precious blood of God’s Son Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:18-19). We are strangers and pilgrims in this world, we are the ambassadors of Christ, sent from the heavenly Kingdom to bring meaning to the lives of those here on earth. As long as we are conscious of this truth we can never live meaningless lives, our lives will take on a new meaning. The Word of God says that we are in the world but not of the world. God has made us tough that we can face any crisis in life without losing. There is something different about us, something awesome about us, and that is our identity. We’ve been born into God’s class of being!
