Who Am I?

If you want your behavior to change so that it wil be more like Christ's, then you will have to acknoledge your new identity in Christ, and you will have to resist Satan's attempt to deceive you.-from "Life on Purpose"
So who are we in Christ?
1. We am no longer an enemy of God. Before we accept Christ as our Savior, we are enemies with God. We are in direct conflict with Him. Often it's not an obvious "hate" relationship, but we don't desire God's will and plan for our lives and it puts us at odds with Him. When we accept Christ, we accept God's plan and desires and we are no longer His enemy. Now we are His children.
2. We are forgiven and justified. When we accept Jesus, we are forgiven of all our past sins. God no longer sees them. The Bible tells us that God casts our sins "as far as the east is from the west." Think about that: if you started flying east, your compass would read East. As you continue to fly, you would eventually reach California (the West Coast), but your compass would still read East. East and West never meet. Not only am I forgiven, but I am justified. I am clean in God's eyes, just as if I had never sinned. The blood Christ shed on the Cross covers my sins and cleans them.
3. We are a new creation. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" The old is gone, what does that mean? Our old desire to do what we want to is gone. We have been given a new mindset. We want to do what God wants. Our nature has changed. The power that Satan had over us is broken. We now have the power, through the Holy Spirit in our lives, to say "No" to sin. We are still tempted, but we have the ability to resist.
4. We are heirs to God's Kingdom. We have been made a child of God. We have been adopted into His family and we are given all the rights and privileges afforded to God's children. Because we are adopted, we can never lose that inheritance-Heaven.
Have you ever entered into that relationship with God? What great news that we are new in Christ. If you want to know more about this relationship, leave me a comment and I'll get back with you.