Your true identity

What do you consider your true identity? Are you sure? Our society is trying to find their true identity. They go around asking, “Who am I?” I have some great news. You do not have to go around looking for your identity and trying to figure out if you are a male or female. You do not have to try to find your identity (personal worth) in marriage, being single, having a family, work, wealth, pleasure, education, power broker, or in a million avenues that lead to a dead end and sometimes to total destruction.

Lygon Stevens loved to spend her time climbing mountains with her brother Nick. She scaled Mt. McKinley (Denali). On another climbing expedition, in January 2008, an avalanche occurred hurting her brother and taking her life at the age of 20. Later Nick discovered a journal that she had written. Her words brought deep comfort to him. She wrote: “I am a work of art, signed by God. But he’s not done; in fact, He has just begun …. I have on me the fingerprint of God. Never will there ever be another person like me …. I have a job to do in this life that no other can do.”

Lygon found her identity in Christ. She knew that she was a work of art. Each person that God created is a “work of art, signed by God.” She did not need the world to tell her what her identity was, nor did she have to wake up each day and try to find her true value.

God made each of us in His image (Genesis 1:26). Paul says, “We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesian 2:10). Each of us is a work of art, created in God’s image and redeemed by His Son. If we allow God, He will make us into a perfect masterpiece and we will never have to worry about our infinite worth.

At our VBS, which starts this Sunday night, we will look at creation. We would love to have your family and children be a part of it. Matt Miles, coming to us from Creation Truth Foundation, will deal with the problem of creation verses evolution. Not only that, but he will look at what effect that has on our own personal identity, who we think we are, and who God made us to be. We will also address that Christ died for our sins. If we allow Christ to save us from our sins then and only then can we find our true identity or the person that we were created to be. We do not need to guess at or even think about it. We know because of what Christ is doing in us and through us.