Who are you?

Do you ever feel like you have no identity, like you don’t fit in anywhere? Do you ever feel rejected or condemned? God says in the Bible that if you’ve put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, He sees you as ‘holy and blameless’. As His child, you belong to Him and are awesome in His sight. So why don’t you feel that way? Could it be that you don’t choose to believe and trust the truth of God’s Word? When you practice your faith by choosing to believe the Bible instead of your feelings, you can experience true joy the way God wants you to.

As a follower of Jesus Christ, you DO have an identity and that is as a child of God. God chose you to be in Him before He had created the world. He knew you would be born and be called His very own! He did not just choose you and set you aside for a later time or another place, but He actually made you to be in Him, right NOW! “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace” Ephesians 1:4-7

Because you are in Jesus, you are part of His body. And how could Jesus look at His own hand for instance and say it isn’t good? You are pure in His sight because you are now a part of Him. When Jesus sees you, He sees you as clean and innocent not by anything you’ve done, but only by His death. He paid the penalty of your sins with His own life because He loves you so much.

The Lord is more ready to pardon you than you are to sin; more willing to forgive you than you are willing to forgive yourself. Ask Him to forgive you at any time and He will do it. Satan can accuse and attack you all he wants, but remember you are not of Satan you are in Jesus by your faith. As horrible as you may think you are, Jesus washed away your sins; that’s how valuable you are to God. And that’s how powerful His sacrifice was for you. You are His child!

So the next time you feel left out, unworthy or hopeless, choose to believe the truth of God’s Word and be confident that you are ‘holy and blameless’ in the sight of Jesus. And that makes you special to Him regardless how you feel about yourself. Have you confessed your sins and chosen Jesus Christ to be the Lord and Savior of your life? If you have already, then congratulations. If you haven’t, then just do it right NOW. God will forgive you and make you His very own because He loves you just the way you are. =]