Last week we looked at discovering our identity. Your identity is tied to your purpose. Your identity is never what you own or your sexuality. That has to do with your choices, not whom you were created to be.
We are created for a purpose. We noticed that there was an original intention in creation. You didn’t just come to exist out of thin air. The universe, as we know, has intelligence behind it. Science claim that it is evolution, a “Big Bang.” That is what they call it, but I know that it is God. The intricate working of all the planets, the uniqueness of a human body, and all the parts functioning can not evolve by itself. You are uniquely and wonderfully made.
You know your purpose, but what is your identity?
In Genesis, we see God creating heaven and earth. God says in verse 26 of the first chapter: “Let Us make man in our IMAGE.”
What does that even mean?
The original word for Image in Hebrew means a shadow, a representation, or an imprint.
Adam was to be a representation of God’s character. How do I know that? The first Adam failed, the last Adam, Jesus, came to show us what the first Adam missed. As the first Adam was created in God’s image, so was Jesus. The first Adam was to represent God to the human race. The last Adam was to represent God to the human race and represent the human race to God.
Heb 1:3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
When you saw Jesus in his daily walk, you understood the nature and the character of God. When Jesus forgave an adulteress, it shows us the righteousness of God. When Jesus healed a blind man, it showed us the character of God. When Jesus forgave people for their sins, he showed us the nature of God. If you understood him, you understood the heart of God for people.
John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
What is essential is to know that Jesus came to show us what our origin is. You don’t find proof that you evolved from a monkey. You, my friend, were created in His image. Your identity is not an evolution process trying to better the previous organism. The source of your identity is a creator that said: “It is very good” after he made Adam.
If you want to know your identity, you are, first and foremost, a spiritual being. God is a Spirit, and we are created in His Image – John 4:24. That means you are a spiritual being having an earthly experience, not an earthly being trying to have a spiritual experience.
Secondly, you are a partaker of His divine nature.
2 Pet 1:4 By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
Just like Jesus came to show God’s character, we are now partakers of that same Godly nature. God’s nature is holy and sinless. God’s nature is loving and graceful. We are no longer driven by our carnal nature that wants to fulfill the desires of the flesh. We live by the Spirit of God.
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
What is your identity?
You are a son or a daughter of God – John 1:12-13. You have His nature, and you have His character.
