My Identity: Christ's Identity

Self depreciation is a big struggle that I have had for many years. Over the past year or so I have gotten a little bit better about it, but I still fall into it. It is a sin rooted in a pride issue.

Every time a comment like "ugh my hair looks funny" or "I don't like the way I sound" or "I don't know why you would want to be friends with me", it just goes to show what I am looking to for my identity. Looks, talents, friends...they are all things that can be used for identity. False identity.

While at youth conference last week, I was reminded of something. As a christian, when I became saved, I died to myself. I took up Christ's righteousness. I took up Christ's identity.

In turn, I believe that as a christian, by being self depreciating, I am being Christ depreciating. When I degrade myself, I degrade Christ. It is as if I do not trust in who He is and in what He has done for me. Jesus didn't save me for my talents, looks or popularity. "If that were the case, he wouldn't have saved me!" (see it's easy to throw self depreciation into anything!) (*Joking*) Seriously though, by acting like I suck at life, it downplays what's important, The Cross.

I know I am not the only person that struggles with this. Give it some thought. Don't let people give you and identity. Find your identity in Christ and what the bible says you are as a child of Christ.

Psalm 139:13-16
"For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them."