Identity Affirmation
If the first and most powerful act of God was to create man in his own image – then the greatest response to the redemptive work of Jesus is to accept that we are his workmanship and to exchange the puny existence we have for the glorious purpose that he offers. – PM
We don’t have a sin problem in the world. We have an identity problem in the world. Sin is a demonstration of disintegration. The problem with sin is that – especially as Christ followers – it becomes our point of identification, rather than what God says is our focal point.
When we agree with what God says to be true about himself, and appropriate that with what God says to be true about us in relation to himself – this is integration.
Integration is a form of agreement. Agreement proceeds alignment.
As you and I agree with what God says to be true about himself it begins to permeate all of the disparate parts within each of us. Welcome to our primary work – reconciliation.
When we begin to believe what God says to be true about us in relation to himself, we become that very thing He created us to be.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 ESV
Imagine imagining your image the way God does!
