prismaticbleed | god identity

Replace whatever lies you’re believing about your identity with the truth of who Jesus Christ is in you, and who He knows you to be. What you have done in the past does not get to tell you who you are. Jesus does. If you believe you are bad, worthless, hopeless, or a failure, you need to begin renewing your mind to truth. His Word is truth.

I struggle with this daily. My past is wracked with traumatic sin, which haunts me incessantly, and often drives me to despair… because I keep forgetting this truth in Jesus. I admit this with great shame, but therefore I also exalt Him with great hope and gratitude.

I do feel like I am inherently bad, filthy, wrong, ugly, ruined, broken, evil, worthless, etc. I feel I have failed at life and that my future is nonexistent as a result. But all of this comes from a worldly mindset! If I shift my focus, rightly, to Christ… suddenly I no longer feel defined by my horrific past. Suddenly I remember that Christ has put that evil past to death on the Cross, because He loves me and wants me to live free of that choking burden, free of the fear of sin’s death sentence, free of the chronic terror of hellfire that sin always carries with it. Christ knows I have sinned but He also knows I am heartily sorry, and that I cannot do better without Him.

So Christ died for me, to pay the debt of my sin FOR me, so that if I unite myself to Him in His atoning death, my past dies and I live.

The devil hates this. This is why he constantly tries to chain us TO our past: he wants to nullify the salvation of cross. But he cannot! Christ knows the truth because He IS the Truth. “I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.“ (John 5:24) And of course… "When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, ‘Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?’ She said, 'No man, Lord.’ And Jesus said unto her, 'Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.’” (John 8: 10-11)

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)

Which voice is your identity based on: the thief who destroys, or the Shepherd who heals?

Just… remember this. Read Scripture and live in this.