Sealed Women: I AmSample

DAY 2: The Source of Your Identity

"For in Him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’' (Acts 17:28-30)

Moses was a person who struggled with identity issues. He was born to Hebrew parents, given an Egyptian name, and raised by Pharaoh's daughter as an adopted son. He left his homeland and culture carrying great condemnation, trauma, and guilt.

Unexpectedly, God appeared to Moses through a burning fiery thorn bush in the middle of the desert. God called him by name, spoke his language, mentioned his ancestors and his current brothers, and informed Moses that He had created him and was calling him to return as His ambassador to rescue God's people from Egypt.

Moses would undertake a world-changing task that would humble the gods of Egypt, save an entire nation from slavery, and establish a people whose descendants would bring salvation to the world. What an epic and crazy idea!

From Moses' perspective, he was an eighty-year-old migrant worker who had settled into his lifelong routine of caring for animals. He had been a non-entity for forty years, no longer had access to sophisticated culture, and could not even speak properly.

No doubt that conversation with God terrified him. Isolated in the depths of the desert, he had this supernatural experience with the Creator, who told him that Moses was chosen to be the liberator of a nation. His feelings, pains, situation, and desires completely convinced him against this idea.

But the God called the Great "I AM" (Exodus 3:14), speaking to him through the fire, had systematically developed and prepared Moses throughout his life to be the ideal man for this work.

Moses knew the way to the land of Egypt, where he was born and raised. He could communicate with the Pharaoh using the language that he, Moses, spoke. He understood the bondage of slavery under which his own family lived. He could lead millions of people through the desert to Mount Sinai, where he had already worked for forty years. It was 80 years of God seeing and watching over His own plan.

Who knew Moses' true identity?

Moses, a weak and volatile human being, or God, the One who created him in his mother's womb and watched over him throughout his life?

The true meaning and identity of all creation are found in its Creator.

Everything God says and does flows from who He is.

The identity of everything He has created is permanently linked to the nature and attributes of God Himself.

Our identity and being can only be understood within the identity of God.

In Him, we live and move.

Who has been the source of your identity? Yourself? Your family? Your past good or bad experiences? Your cultural and social background? A psychological evaluation? Your physical condition? Or the God of the universe, who made you in His image, Who cannot lie, Who is giving you every breath of life?

"The sum total of a person's life is not the sum total of their weaknesses." - Amy Beth

Only the One Who made you has the perfect knowledge and absolute authority to define who you are and what He created you to become. You are who He says you are.

You become like what you behold. Dwelling on sin, the injustices done to you, and your constant hurts and grief darkens the lens through which things are seen. Jesus is the light of the world. Knowing God, who He is, turns on the light so you can see and understand more about everything in life.

"The path to spiritual freedom as a Christian is the same path you took to become a Christian: complete dependence on Christ." Tony Evans

Your identity will become clearer to you, reflect more of your true reality, and expand your vision of your future as you grow in your understanding of God.

My Declaration:

(Watch the following video and speak out loud what God’s Word says about who you are. Verses are paraphrased based on the specific the Bible references.)