The knowledge of our true identity is a vital key to getting through the tough times in life. From a faith perspective it is important for Christians to remind themselves often of who they are in Christ. Our identity is not just what our parents, our education or our training have made us. We have a much higher and more significant identity than that.
Knowing who we are in Him makes a very real difference to our attitude towards the circumstances through which we are passing. Revelation 1:5 & 6 offers a wonderful benediction: ‘To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.’ It says that God loves us and that he has made a kingdom and priests to serve him. That means we are not just a number in a hospital, school or anywhere else. We have royal blood in us! We are princes and princesses in the kingdom of heaven! When you accepted Jesus, He accepted you and put a royal robe around your shoulders. You have a throne beside his. You are seated with him in heavenly places, (Ephesians 2:6).
When we pass through hard times the pressure can force us to forget all this. We feel wretched, small and insignificant. Our future may be befogged by fear, while present problems loom large through the murk. What we need is a magic mirror - like the one above! God's Word, the Bible is just such a mirror. We look into it and see the state of our hearts, but we also see the greatness of what God has made us in Christ! Hold on to that when the going gets hard.(I have written much more about this in my book Storm Force: winning the battle for the mind which you can obtain by clicking on the left)
Inside every pussy cat there is a lion waiting to be set free!
5 comments:
I read both your books now and Storm Force is so full of force, so clear, so helpful for sick, carers and church-members. I wish everyone would read it and get to know the biblical truth!!! I never read this truth, it was a feeling, but you made it the truth through the Word of God: the bible. THANK YOU ERIC
By the way: I met a pastor who was seeking this specific light on such an important matter and he told me to send the details asap. This pastor is a teacher and a pastoral carer...!
Adrienne. Great to have your comments. Storm Force in particular was written with just such people in mind, so do pass the details on to your pastor friend. If he emails me I can send him a book at a good rate from home.
Eric
Have given himm all the details and the website including this blog, but will write him with your suggestion, thank you!
I have had you and Diane in my thoughts and prayers. I so hope that you are in much less pain and able to enjoy the Guernsey summer.
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