Understanding my identity in Christ

The Holy Spirit never takes a vacation. The Holy Spirit knows us, knows our twists and turns and even sets the stage so that our falls are not flat and we can quickly get up and continue to encourage our Christian life and encourage others to follow Christ. For this to happen and have a true meaning in your life, it will be necessary for the Spirit to reveal to you a truth that the enemy has tried to hide from us for centuries and therefore remains a pending subject in the modern Christian curriculum: the Spirit. God has given you a new identity, an incredible identity that frees you from all kinds of ties and allows you to fully enjoy the Lord's delights. The delight of his Grace is an immense blessing.

This truth has to do with the definitive death and without the possibility of resurrection of your old man, of your old nature, of what you were and are no longer because the day you met Christ, the day God chose you to be adopted as his son, to be approved in everything, justified by his grace and accepted He gave you a new identity, took all your sins and nailed them to the cross of Christ. With your sins you were crucified with Christ so that your old nature would succumb and you could be resurrected with Him as a new creature. It is not possible to resurrect without first having died.

In his subtle cunning the devil never stops trying to make us believe that our old before Christ nature, that of the old human being who was dead in trespasses and sins, still lives! and that it is still capable of governing our actions and enslaving the mind. Our common enemy knows that as long as we are ignorant of the truth of our new identity, that is, being Sons of God, he can shake us at will. When you understand the meaning of your new identity, you free yourself and broaden your spiritual territories that allow you to remain in Christ.

There are some truths that we must understand from this revelation.

1. If you are not aware that your old nature died on the cross of Christ to give birth to the new creature that you are, then you are not aware of your new identity in Christ.

2. If you don't understand what it means to be a child of God (your new identity in Christ), you will miss out on fully enjoying the gift of divine grace.

3. If you do not understand the message of God's divine grace, you will always feel like a sinner striving to do works of service for God in order to please him and thus obtain his favors. God cares more about who you are now than what you can do for Him.

4. If any of the first three approaches are a reality in your life, you are not consistent with the message of the cross and with the sacrifice that the Lord made on it to give us life in abundance.

Christ came to give us life, not to reform and compose ours, but to give us His! In Christ we cohabit with him through his own life. He is our life, He is our mind. We are Christians because He lives within the Christian. It is impossible for the Christian to exercise a lifestyle where sin is habitual, since he will always feel miserable, indebted and perverse, which is contrary to our new identity.

To be in Christ is to understand that we are partakers of his divine nature (2 Peter 1: 4), that we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:10); We are a new creature, children of the Most High and our lifestyle is not based on what we do for Him, but on what He has already done for us through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ.