Imprisoned in False Identity

Character Flaws. Addictions. Immorality. This is who the Enemy tells us we are, and we secretly hate ourselves for, while building our public persona around projecting the opposite.

We make inner vows, “I will never be like that”, like our parents or some other person who hurt us. And we become just like that, because we become what we judge (James 2:1). Or “I will always be a failure in this area.” And those inner vows become the bars of our prison. We build our own prison, bar by bar, inner vow by inner vow.

And Jesus wants to dismantle that prison, bar by bar, inner vow by inner vow. He died, and more importantly now lives, to set us free. Free from false identity and the chains that go along with it. Intimacy with our Lover-King brings freedom. Freedom from character flaws, addictions, immorality, and everything else that keeps us bound.

And most importantly, freedom from failure. Or to put it another way, freedom to fail. The person in love with Jesus is free to try and fail, because they know He's already covered it. They've already come to grips with their failure and surrendered it to Him. So they don't have it anymore.

So try. Jump. Take the Leap of Faith. Go after your God-given passion. Live who you really are – the same person in public as in private, loving yourself like Jesus loves you. Read Psalm 139. It's all about your Lover-King's desire for you, and His hand on the life of who you really are.