December 15, 2010

• Identity #36 – I Have All Things

  To be called a child of God, His friend, royalty, a citizen of heaven, and so many other amazing identities clearly lead to this revelation: We lack nothing and instead have everything.

  1Corinthians 3:21-23 – So let no one boast in men.  For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future–all are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

  It can be easy to try and find one’s worth through other people and to desire the gifts/honor of other people more than God (to “boast in men”).  But the wild thing is that we already have everything.  Even death.  Yes, even death!  It is as we grow so deep in our identity in Christ that we realize that because of who we are before Him, we literally have everything and that nothing is outside of us.  Healing, miracles, provision, and anything else… all for us and for our welfare.  This is the liberty we have in Christ.

  But the passage ends with a reminder that while we have everything, we still belong to Christ.  And that brings responsibility in what we claim.

  This is clearly an identity that must be claimed, like identities such as, “I am satisfied” or “I am dead to sin.”  Each identity is taken from the Word of God and is the truth, so the more we claim them the more the truth becomes us and we not just experience it but feel it being lived out through us. 

  God bless!

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