You don’t see things as they are; you see things as you are. Because we see through our identity, the key to changing how we see the world, others, ourselves and every circumstance is knowing who we truly are. Many believers carry a distorted, patched-up image of themselves, and everything they see is coloured by it. In Colossians 3, Paul tells us to seek the things above, to set our minds there, because we died and our lives are hidden with Christ in God. For a believer there are only two identities, the old and the new, and in Christ we have received the new. God is not interested in self-help, which is simply a modern form of the law. His only plan for the old self was death, and He has already carried it out at the cross. Dying to self is not a slow daily discipline but an historical event: God placed our old selves on Jesus and raised us in newness of life. Most Christians live as though they are struggling failures who will only be transformed at death. God sees us now as new creations. Paul’s pattern is to start from that identity, set our minds on it, and let right actions flow out of it.
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Originally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church.
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