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Newsletter of Hope - Identity in Christ Jesus


 Identity in Christ Jesus


Over this last month or so the Lord has been opening up my understanding of who I am in Him.  


For a long time my identity has been in my past, has been how other people treated me, how I have seen myself.  The abuse that I went through as a child had been my identity, the rejection I had felt had been my identity, the failures in life had been my identity, fear had been my identity, peoples opinions of me had been my identity.


It says in 2 Corinthians 5:17  

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.


I know this scripture and have quoted it many times, but I am just getting that understanding of what it really means.  


I don’t have to associate myself with my old self, the one born with a sinful nature, before I knew Christ Jesus.  I don’t have to believe those thoughts that are old, from the old me, or from the devil who likes to remind me of my former self.


It says in 

Ephesians 4:22  to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt throughout deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.


There is freedom in this. To forget what is in my past, the old me, the old me that was abused, crushed and broken.  But now to move forward, as a child of God, loved, accepted, made on purpose, with a purpose.


Philippians 3:13-14  But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.  I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.


Colossians 3:1-3 

If then you have been raised with Christ, see the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.


We all have a story of things that have happened to us, some worse than others.  I want to tell you that you can have freedom.  Freedom from those hurts, freedom. 


If you have made Jesus your Lord and Saviour, born again, then you can put off your old self and put on the new, in Christ Jesus.  For whoever the Lord sets free is free indeed.


This has been a big revelation to me.  I am keen to learn more about me in Christ Jesus.  Who I am, His plan for me.  I am keen to learn more about Jesus, who He is. The old has passed away and the new has come.


I want to encourage you, don't give up.  Forgive those who have hurt you, just as God forgave you through Christ Jesus, put off the things of the past, the old you, put on the new you, renew your mind in the Word of God, and see a change, see a new you in Christ Jesus, hidden in Him.


Ephesians 5:1  Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.


Many blessings,

Denise


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