Key To Sound Identity

We can see God addressing the three-legged design of basic human needs in the three questions He asked Adam: 

1> The first question was, “Adam where are you?”  Where is the identity that had us as Father-to-son, face-to-face, yesterday, but today has you hiding?  After Adam ate of the tree, when he looked at himself, his mirror was cracked.  He was fragmented and his self-image was scarred.  If you think that mess-ups in your life can de-daughter or de-son you, your identity is too fragile, and it is not rooted in relationship with your Heavenly Father.  The first shot the devil took in the wilderness was at Jesus’ identity when he said, “If you are God’s Son.”  Jesus was so confident of His identity and unshakeable relationship with the Father that Satan couldn’t tempt Him to even try to prove it by turning stones to bread.  The key to sound identity is that it be rooted in relationship with God.

(This is the ninth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Seeing Us The Way God Sees Us” which was published in SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)