Satan’s Greatest Crime Against Humanity
There has never been a theft so large and costly as that of our essential identity. Every one of us has heard ‘a smooth talker’ telling us who we are NOT, and why we are NOT good enough for the love of God. What we need to believe more than anything else is, who the Lord says we ARE. You and I were not the first to have our identity stolen and we won’t be the last, but praise God, He knows how to win back the stolen goods that are held in the enemy’s camp.
Excerpt from Identity Theft – Satan’s Greatest Crime Against Humanity
It was a devastating spiritual identity theft. He’s a smooth talker, that devil. While he was selling Adam a piece of oceanfront property in the Arabian desert, he swiped Adam’s “kingdom-of-God ID card” right out of his wallet. He did this by getting Adam to doubt God’s love, honesty, and generosity. Adam sinned and lost his sense of value and worth that had been given to him by his Creator. His source for all things pertaining to life and his identity were now placed in something besides God. Confusion, insecurity, and fear—all different forms of death—began to dominate him.
Believing and accepting what God says about you is the beginning of recovering your identity. And knowing God is at work on the inside of you, for your good, brings hope.
For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure. Philippians 2:13 AMP
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.Colossians 3:1-3 NKJV
The definition of identification is: to treat or consider as the same, to join or associate closely with whoever and whatever you’re identified with. It means sameness or oneness. I’d say you are VERY closely associated with the ONE who died so that you could live! Let’s think about identity another way.
When a child is learning to identify things with words, they are totally dependent upon a declaration from an authority to give the object a name (chair, dog, mama, bottle). The beauty of God’s plan for man is as simple as that. You are who HE says you are. He began by putting a picture of His original design for man within us, but through sin it became diluted, confused and corrupt. In His mercy He made provision for us to identify again with His original design through Jesus.
By living in God, love has been brought to its full expression in us so that we may fearlessly face the day of judgment, because all that Jesus now is, so are we in this world. 1 John 4:17 TPT
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