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Ignore Cultural Lies about Identity:
Eternal Security and Incomparable Identity
Reside in Knowing Christ
“Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people. Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy.” -I Peter 2:10
Identity confusion remains rampant in our culture. Songs, ads, articles, and memes describe and tempt people with "new" ways to define and describe what it means to be human. But it seems people are more miserable than ever and suicide rates reflect that.
Fact: Only God's Word remains unchanging and ever-lovingly true. Yes, God's Word remains the final word. How He describes us should define us: Only our Creator deserves and reserves the rights to define you. Only in Christ can we experience true security. When we repent from sin and accept Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, we experience complete transformation as God's fully adopted children and (wait for it!) co-heirs with God's Son Himself! It can't get any better than that, my friends. Amen?
This literally Rock-solid truth never fades. Only our focus blurs if we start to look around instead of gazing upward at our Lord Jesus Christ.
God's love exceeds our highest comprehension! The cross puts that point across.
Accept God's acceptance of you as a new creation in Christ. Derive your identity and security from Christ Himself. Ignore cultural shifts. No substitute exists for prayer. Keep praying and resolutely looking up to Jesus, my friends.
Take God's Word to heart:
"[He has also appropriated and acknowledged us as His by] putting His seal upon us and giving us His [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as the security deposit and guarantee [of the fulfillment of His promise]" (2 Corinthians 1:22).
“Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people. Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy” (I Peter 2:10).
"Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17).
-Stacie Ruth Stoelting Hudzinski,
The Praying Pals Radio Program
(www.PrayingPals.org)
P.S. Do you know Jesus as your personal Savior and Lord? He's the only Way to Heaven. He said so. Click here to learn how to know God and go to Heaven.
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