An identity complex …

There’s nothing flattering about identity theft. Those who attempt to steal your “identity” don’t do so because they want to be you, or be like you. They just want to use your good standing to steal from you.

Identity theft has become such a serious crime that paper shredders have become commonplace in the average American household. Today, you don’t throw away mail, you shred it, lest someone goes through your trash and gathers personal data about you.

There are even companies you can pay a monthly fee to “protect” your identity from being stolen.

In our world, we fight to keep people from stealing our identity. In God’s economy, He works at giving us His:

“For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory,” Romans 8:29-30.

Being like God, as one of His own children, isn’t something that we have to try to sneak or steal. You can’t get His likeness that way, regardless of how stealthy you are. Instead, God offers us His identity. It is His desire to change us into the likeness of His Son so that we may truly reflect Him.

Funny how we fight against that change in identity, and strive to keep our own.

Have you given up your identity for a new identity in Christ? Or are you still hanging on to your old self?

Scotty