Understanding Why You Are On This Earth – Pastor Blessed Ennin
Understanding Why You Are On This Earth – Pastor Blessed Ennin
Understanding who we are is the first step in comprehending why we are on this earth. Who am I? Is the first question a lot of people fail to answer because they do not really know the answer. Are you who you are based on what society has made you or based on what you have been exposed to? Imagine Adam not knowing he was created in the image and likeness of God, will grow up thinking there is no God. Until we understand our origin, sometimes it is difficult to understand our journey and process. For a split second, think about a successful person standing before the throne of God only to be told that they missed their purpose and assignment on earth. I can only assume how devastating that will be for such a person. Quite frankly, it is possible for such event to happen. You can be successful without your God-intended identity.
The same way you can be successful and still miss your God given purpose or mandate. The reason why understanding our identity, i.e., purpose is very important is because the release of grace is given to individuals according to their assignment. What it means is, you can lose a battle if you are not identified in that area. Whoever God calls; he equips accordingly. Understanding this will help believers choose their battles wisely. For the enemy to distort one’s purpose and assignment, one of the first thing he seeks to do is to confuse your identity for you not to know who you are in Christ Jesus. The same way the enemy can cause you to think you are someone that you are not. Success is not the measuring tool in determining whether one knows their identity or not.
Acts 19:15 – And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”
The overcomer is one who has an identity in Christ Jesus – someone who unreservedly resembles and acts like Jesus Christ. To understand this, we should consider these two questions and responses.
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Q1. Did God consider our identity from the beginning of time? In Genesis 1:26, we notice that God took into consideration the identity of man in order for mankind to have dominance. Genesis 1:26 says “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.This is because dominance is activated on the platform of identity. For God to consider the dominance of mankind, he needed to first consider man’s identity. That is why we are able to exercise our authority and dominion through the blood of Jesus because of our newly found identity – through salvation. This is because our own identity does not avail much. When we accept Jesus as our Lord and personal savior, we adopt His likeness through the sonship or daughter-ship we obtain from him. Absolute reliance on the Holy Spirit is what gives us power: not our self. Relying on God is the absolute decision we make to adopt His name, His person, and His Lordship over our lives.
Q2. Can one have an identity in parallel with an identity in Christ Jesus? The answer is no. According to Galatians 2:20, Paul said I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me; And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. This scripture helps us understand that we cannot be dependent on God and depend on ourselves at the same time. One has to yield to the other. A lot of believers, in their quest to do this, tend to unknowingly push God away and rely on themselves. Learning to yield our identity to the identity of Christ will not only help us as believers to achieve our God given mandate, but it will also put us on the winning side.
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Remember Peter in Matthew 14:28-30 asked the Lord to command him to come to Him. He was able to do so because he kept a single focus on the person of Christ. When his focus shifted to how terrifying and strong the wind was, he started to sink. Yielding our identity to Christ Jesus’s identity means that we should have this gaze on Jesus and not take our eyes off. We gain our identity by looking at Jesus for his glorious light to permeate and shine on us. This glorious light is what the bible says in John 1:5 that, And the light shines in darkness and darkness comprehend it not. The light that exposes our distorted identity due to darkness is transformed into the express image of Christ Jesus when we gaze at His light. Let us all learn to yield our image to Christ Jesus’s image today.
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