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“Become who you are.” This is one of those trippy statements that is easy to hear, easy to say, but makes no sense. How can I become something I already am, especially when I don’t feel like it? This statement became easier to understand when I heard this simple truth: “Everything that the bible says about me is the truest thing about me.” When it says in Colossians 3, “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” that means that everything about me is dead. My old self, that selfish, arrogant, mean person I was before Christ… that guy is dead. The same is true for you anyone who trusts in God for salvation. We have been taught to react to situations by the way we feel. We define ourselves by what we do, what we desire, and even what we have. We may believe we have no friends and therefore think we are unlovable. Perhaps we desire a girlfriend/boyfriend, but since we do not have one, we must be ugly. Or, “I am a stupid person because I got an ‘F’ on that test.” You see, these are all subconscious; we don’t actually tell ourselves we are ugly, we just believe these lies because of experiences. But these statements are not who you are. In reality, a creation is defined by its creator. We know a computer is used for typing, reading, social networking, gaming, etc. Phones are for calling, texting, etc., only because the people who made them informed us that was their purpose. The same is true about us. Only our creator can define our purpose and our use. So when God says, “you are a new creation, the old has gone and the new has come,” regardless of how you feel about it, that IS who you are. When you believe that, your actions begin to adhere to the truth. This is Romans 12:2 at work: being transformed by renewing the way you think, according to what He says about you. Unfortunately, the more we hear the media tell us we are not good enough, the more we believe it. But the same is true about the Bible. The more we hear that God loves us and He has sealed us with His Spirit, the more we will believe what He says about us. Chat now with a spiritual coach
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