By John Posey, June 5, 2024

Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and expressions that characterize a person or a group. For people, identity emerges when they are children who start comprehending their self-concept, which remains consistent throughout different stages of life.

You cannot define what you have not made. God created us, and therefore, He defines who we are. Other people cannot define who we are.

You can live your whole life for others or for yourself because of your past, family, or society. Our modern world wants our identity to be shaped by race, gender, and sexual behavior.  But as Christians, our identity is based on who God says we are. 

Our first filter of who we are must be how God sees us—the biblical concept aligns who we are with being “in Him.”

Here are a few verses that relate to being “In Him.”

 “But now in Christ Jesus you who previously were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ” (Eph 2:13 NASB20)

Because I’m in Christ Jesus, even though I was once far away from God because of my moral failures, because of what Christ did on my behalf, I have been brought near to God. 

“We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints” (Col 1:3-4). 

Any faith and love we have are because I am in Christ Jesus. 

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus” (Eph 2:4-6). 

I’ve been raised with Him, and I’ve been seated with him in heavenly places. 

This passage relates to our legal system through a metaphor of our system of appealing to a higher authority.  Let’s say you have a court judgment that finds you guilty of X. In the American justice system, you can appeal a negative judgment against you to a higher court. The highest court in the land is the US Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court rules and says you are innocent, it doesn’t matter what any lower court says, you are declared innocent.  There are no higher earthly authorities who can say anything differently.  The highest court ruling wins.

To be raised up and seated with Christ means we are above the systems of this world.  Our identity with Jesus means we are innocent of anything the Accuser may throw at us, and we are seated with Jesus in the heavenly places.    

You and I, through Christ, are raised far above the unseen spiritual world of principalities, powers, might, and dominion. Far above this world and this world system. We have been seated with Christ in the heavenly places.

The rule of heaven says I have God’s favor. The rule of heaven says I’m acceptable to God. The rule of heaven says I’m unblameable and unreprovable in His sight.  The rule of heaven says I have divine favor, and all things are working together for my good. The rule of heaven says if God is for me, who can be against me? The rule of heaven says I am more than a conqueror. The rule of heaven says greater is He that’s in me than he that is in the world.

You must see yourself the way God does and accept who God says you are. Not how you feel, think, or what others say or don’t say. God’s word speaks to you today; you are empowered by his Word when you believe it. Like Mary Said

And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word” (Luke 1:38).

God’s promise came to pass, and the WORD was made flesh. The Word of God will be made flesh or manifested in your life when you agree with His eternal Word.

The book of Proverbs declares it this way, “My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh” (Proverbs 4:20–22).

God’s Word is above everything in this world. It is your weapon to empower you to represent him each day.

Your identity is who God says you are. You must believe that when you walk into the workplace.

With this wisdom, revelation, and knowledge above college, God says you are his son/daughter and of his citizenry, and therefore, you operate that way.