When you become saved, it is really important to know your identity in Christ and the names God calls you.
Who have you become as a result of your decision to believe and confess Christ as your Lord?
The Bible tells us that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. 2 Corinth 5:17
This means that you don’t remain the same after salvation. The core of your being changes.
Your life is no longer the same. You have a new identity.
What is an identity?
“Sense of who one is”
Or
“The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood”.
Your identity in Christ is the sense of who you are as a result of your affiliation with, and abiding in Him.
It is your uniqueness and what separates you from the rest of the world.
One of the key things that define identity is a Name.
A name is a description of an office, an identity, and how a person or thing should function. According to Washingtonpost, “a person’s name is the greatest connection to their own identity and individuality”
In Computing, a name is defined as a “unique identifier”
It is crucial for us believers to get our identity from God’s Word by knowing what names God calls us, to prevent identity crisis or living according to the world’s definition of us.
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God’s definition of you is actually the most accurate. And knowing this gives you so much power against everything God has made subject to you.
When believers are ignorant of their identity in Christ, they become slaves to things they should Lord over, like sin, darkness, fear, death, pain, evil, and other antics of the enemy.
Even the enemy himself.
Below are some amazing names God calls you and names you have gotten as a result of being a believer. Read them, meditate, and live in the fullness of their significance.
Your identity in Christ. 14 Names God calls you and scriptures
The righteousness of God
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
II Corinthians 5:21 NKJV
New
No longer a slave to your past or sin.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
II Corinthians 5:17 NKJV
God’s workmanship (A Masterpiece)
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10 NKJV
Redeemed
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
Ephesians 1:7 NKJV
Child (Adopted, not an orphan)
having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
Ephesians 1:5 NKJV
Holy and blameless
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
Ephesians 1:4 NKJV
Blessed
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Ephesians 1:3 NKJV
Chosen
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
Ephesians 1:4 NKJV
Royal
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
I Peter 2:9 NKJV
Priest
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
I Peter 2:9 NKJV
Victorious
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
I Corinthians 15:57 NKJV
Light
“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:14, 16 NKJV
Forgiven
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
Ephesians 1:7 NKJV
Salt
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Matthew 5:13 NKJV
Do you know any other names God calls us? Share with scriptures in the comments below
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