Our identity in Christ is always attacked by the enemy, for fear that when the sons of God awaken his plans will come to naught. Seriously. "[C]reation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God" (see Romans 8:19), and the devil will do all that he can to stop that from happening.
Since the beginning of humankind, Satan has always been on the prowl for men and women to deceive them into living a lie (see 1 Peter 5:8). Using various cunning and sly tactics applied to the first man and woman, the devil has kept both men and women living lives that are way below what God intended, which is a life of intimacy with Him and security in Him and dominion over all creation — the life that Jesus lived.
Brothers and sisters, I know this very well for I have lived quite a long time under the devil's lie that I am not loved by God, that I will never be accepted by God, that I could never be totally forgiven by God, and that I will never be of use to Him. I used to believe the lies. But now that I could see that God is true even though man is not, I know who I am: a child of the Most High God — and so are you if you are in Christ.
Here are a few Bible verses that will strongly remind you of your identity in Christ whenever the enemy brings bad times to convince you that you aren't who God says you are.
Genesis 1:26-28 – "Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." (Pixabay)Ephesians 1:3-6 – "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, 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, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved."(Pixabay)2 Corinthians 6:18 – "I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty." (Pixabay)1 John 4:9-10 – "In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (Pixabay)John 15:14-16 – "You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you." (Pixabay)
