Identity

Where is you identity? What or who do you try to look like? Identity can be defined as the quality or condition of being the same as something else. So what are you trying to look like? Are you trying to look like everyone else at work, at school, or some other idea you have? We all do this. We all listen to our ego to find fullfillment in attempting to look like something that will make us feel good. We no longer find our identity in God, the source of all being everywhere, we go looking for it somewhere else. We forget that we are created in God's image and we have to find our fullfillment in our spiritual life. Fulfillment in attempting to find our identity in our physical life will never happen, it is not how we were created. We need to put that part of us, the ego, to death. Paul wrote in Romans:

So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!
This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?" God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him! Romans 8:12-17

Christ came to redeem the whole person, not just part of us. The best thing we can do is bury our old way of life and get on living a life of inspiration - a life that is connected to God's spirit - a life "in-spirit." When we are attempting to find our identity in life outside of God's spirit, we are not remembering that we are children and we have a father that is totally trustworthy. Today find your identity in God. Remember that you, yes you, are a child of the Creator of the universe. Those desires, lusts, that you chase after to make you happy leave you unfullfilled. Stop trying to tend to that life it is dead, bury it. Live an inspired life, connected to God remembering who you are and whose you are.

Namaste'