Many of us do not believe what God says about us. Oftentimes we find ourselves minimising who we are in God's eyes based on our own perception of who we are. Other times the devil's condemnations and lies seem to be more believable to us than what God says about us.
But if we want to live the life God has prepared, designed, planned, and willed for us to live, we have to believe Him. We have to agree with Him. We have to see ourselves the way He sees us, and embrace our true identity in Christ.
We need to believe what He says about us.
We Are Truly Loved by God
Many of us find it unbelievable that God would love unlovable us. We are unlovable, unlikeable really, but God loved us so much that He gave His one and only Son for us to be saved and have eternal life.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
We Are Totally Forgiven in Christ
Many of us find it hard to believe that God can forgive our sins. Many of us try to earn God's forgiveness by atoning or trying to undo our sins and mistakes. The truth is that God sent His one and only Son to earn that forgiveness for us through His blood.
"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace." (Ephesians 1:7)
If We Are in Christ, God Is Our Father and We Are His Beloved Children
Many of us don't believe that God would really want to be our Father. After all, we're sinners worthy of His wrath, right? Yes, we're deserving of that, but in His great love for us He chose to pour out His full wrath on Christ so that we don't have to receive it. Instead we receive a new identity – God's adopted and beloved children through Christ.
"But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons." (Galatians 4:4-5)
Christ Gave Us the Reason to Live and the Power to Live It
Many of us don't believe it, but in Christ we actually have the authority to do what God wants us to here on earth without any fear, any worry, and any devil overpowering us. Christ stripped the devil of his authority. Christ has been given all authority in heaven and earth, and with this authority He has commissioned us to preach the gospel to all, making disciples of them and teaching them all that He has taught us.
"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen." (Matthew 28:18-20)
Our Stand in Christ
Friends, we have to believe what God says about us. We are not our own, for Christ has bought us with His blood. His Holy Spirit resides in us, empowering us to live godly lives. He has given us the authority to preach the gospel and live lives worthy of the calling we have received. In Him we live, move, and have our being, and through Him we have all that we need for a life of righteousness.
"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it." (Colossians 2:13-15)
Let no devil deceive you from now on. Embrace who you are in Christ and live for Him who died for you!
