Discovering Your True Identity

Have you had an experience where someone who were close to you, like a relative or a significant other tell you things such as, you will never amount to anything, or you are going to be just like your mother, who is no good?, or just like your father, who is no good?, well, I have, and words like these hurt no matter who you hear them from. It could have been easy for me to accept them because after all, the people who should have loved and cared for me abandon me, I’m talking about my mother and father. I sometimes wonder what type of person I would have become if I was reared by my mother and father who would have been there to give me directions and insight about life, marriage and rearing children, but through it all, the Lord protected and shielded me from many of life’s pit falls. I use to wonder how a mother could bring children into the world and not care for them, leaving that great and precious responsibility for someone else to take on, I could not understand that until I read this scripture “Can a mother forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely, they may forget. Yet I will never forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands your walls are continually before me” (Isaiah 49:15). Wow, how awesome is that! You see, I was reared by my grandmother, who had raised seven of her own children, and having to raise six of her daughter’s children was no small task to say the least, but because she loved us and did not want to see us separated as we were headed to foster care, decided to raise us. Later, during my middle school years, I recall hearing from a close relative say to me I would never amount to anything, words that should never be spoken to a child or anyone else for that matter. Sometimes when words like these are spoken over children, those words become their identity and they began to see themselves that way, and although that is not God’s will for their life, they receive those words into their hearts and the enemy uses them to destroy their life. Sometimes they may end up in jail, on drugs or have no regard for life and it started with words that were spoken over them by the very people who should have loved and cared for them. As you read this book, you will find out who you really are, as your identity is in Christ Jesus. Those negative words that were spoken over you as a child or growing up were ultimately meant to destroy you, and the way they become destructive is when you allow what people have said about you to become your identity instead of what your Heavenly Father have said about you. It is my prayer that, as you read this book the eyes of your understanding of who you really are in Christ Jesus will be enlightened, and that you may learn and come to experience how much God really love you and what Jesus went through for you to be identified with him.