THE PROCESS IN FINDING YOUR IDENTITY: THE WALK TO IDENTITY

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John. 1:9)

To confess means to admit. As we admit to God our sins and need of Him, He cleanses us from our unclean conscience. This cleansing is not only to be free from sin and satisfied with this cleansing alone but to be cleansed as the means to acquiring a new level of fellowship with Christ as well. Jesus told the woman of Samaria that “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24)

We have to have a free spirit to be able to have fellowship in the Spirit. If things of yesterday bind us so that we have difficulty relating to one another, we cannot find God’s Sprit moving in our circumstances and lives today.

The children of Israel were slaves for four hundred years, but it was impossible for them to move into the Promised Land while the experience of Egypt still motivated their thinking and behavior. You can realize the truth of this by reading all the trials God used to test them to see if they were ready to go into the Promised Land. Their spirits were not free even though they were no longer under the physical bondage of Pharaoh.

In (Numbers 13:33) we read that the children of Israel were standing on a threshold which could have been the end of all their doubts and uncertainties by moving across these barriers by faith into the power of the promises themselves. The circumstances were perfect for them to actually acquire possession of the promises of God, yet what stopped them?

It was the perfect hour to move, and yet, they could not move in freely because they had not been renewed from within. Their thinking, behavior and memories had not been renewed from within. These new circumstances actually challenged the old slave man inside, and faced with themselves, the nation of Israel suffered an Identity Crisis in the hour when the Spirit was ready to move! They had seen and moved in God’s power many times before, but God’s power had not touched their spiritual man. They missed the purpose and impact of God’s evident power for creating a new people and nation.

People will know us by how well we know ourselves. An identity crisis does not occur because of other people around us but is created by the impact that new knowledge about ourselves has upon our created self-image. Read what happened when the Hebrews met the giants of Anak.

“There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight …” (Numbers 13:33) Israel, a “prince of God”, acted like a slave with the same fears and behavior as though they had in Egypt, and because of their old image, they could not believe the mighty promise of God. They had not learned to identify with the God who had brought them out of Egypt but continued to identity with their Egyptian past.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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