In this series, we’re talking about our identity. Today I want to issue a challenge to you. in one of our last videos, we talked about how we identify ourselves and I asked you to be thinking about how many ways you could finish the sentence stem, “I am ____.” To be thinking of all the characteristics, all the flaws, all the strengths- everything that you would use to finish the sentence, “I am __.”

1. I want you to grab a sheet of paper, and draw a line down the middle.
2. On one side, write, “I am …” and then fill that side with all of the ways you can think of to fill it to describe who you are; your identity, your characteristics- anything that you identify with or anything that you think makes you who you are.
3. On the other side, in that column, fill that with who God says you are.
4. Look back over it and see what matches and what doesn’t. Ask yourself which passages of scripture may contradict what you’ve written on the first side or may give a deeper understanding or deeper wisdom about who you are.

The challenge of this is to really ask God to help you see who you are in Him- not who you are outside of Him, but as a Child of the King. What does that make you? Who are you now?

As you’re doing this portion of the challenge, I want you to be asking yourself who are you now, not who did you use to be before God intervened. Who are you now, and who does God want you to be?

My guess is probably that there’s a big difference in how you see yourself versus how God sees you.

My hope for you is that you can learn to see yourself more as God sees you (ask Him to help you do that), but I want you to see yourself as the very loved Child of the King that you are.