True Identity

As you set your mind on your true identity in Christ, and as you live like Christ is expressing His life through you to accomplish His will on earth, ask yourself: can you become more righteous than righteous? More forgiven than forgiven? More accepted by God than accepted? Holier than holy? Better seated in the heavenlies than seated in the heavenlies? Absurd.

You can’t get more of any of those awesome characteristics. First John 4:17 says, “As [Christ] is, so also are we in this world”; 1 Corinthians 3:17 says, “For the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.” Your spiritual nature is Christlike. You are holy! “For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete” (Colossians 2:9-10). You are complete! How can you improve on perfect? As such, you have the wonderful opportunity to cooperate with Christ to let Him express His holy life through you as opposed to offering your “members ... to [the power of] sin as instruments of unrighteousness” (Romans 6:13).

- Bill Gillham