Remind Me Who I Am (Blog Post)

I have a friend, who is also a mentor and a truly gifted pastor (not to mention a master of productivity...literally writing a book on it), and he carries with him a laminated note card, everywhere he goes.

At first glance, it's such an old man thing to do (and he's only 40). I mean, in his journal he carries with him, inside the front cover is a pocket, like the ones from the library that hold the checkout card. Yeah, glued there by his own doing. And inside of that pocket is one of the greatest reminders of identity one could carry, written on that note card I mentioned.

I want to share what's on it.

Check this out:

Who God says I am is the most important thing about me. I need to be reminded of these realities each day.

1. I am a creature in the image of God—fully dependent on him and fully accountable to him.

2. I am united to Christ by the miraculous work of God. I am spiritually, vitally, and permanently bonded to Christ—renewed in and represented by Him.

3. I am a new creation given a new heart, new spirit, and new identity. I am purchased by God, delivered from darkness, oriented to light, empowered to resist temptation, and welcomed at the cross when I fail.

4. I am a son—an adopted child of the King and heir to an everlasting inheritance. I relate to God with a posture of expectant hope as a beloved son to an indulgent father.

5. I am a sinner called to wage war against the rebellion still indwelling me. I seek to grow in holiness and grow into my new identity, drawing from wells of grace and mercy that are bottomless because I am in Christ.

6. I am a saint categorically, declared holy by God. I am being reconfigured from the inside out, conformed to the image of Christ, made into my truest self, and called to cooperate in that process.

7. I am shaped by the living God to be a certain sort of person—my life, thought, and habits of mind and heart are caught up in a process of being slain and made alive by the gospel.

8. I am royalty, unfathomably, ingrafted into Christ’s royal line, sharing the King’s table and rule, and summoned to act with honor, valor, and nobility befitting the upward call of God in Christ.

9. I am a servant of Christ by God’s grace—belonging to God, not myself. I honor Him by serving others in the roles to which He has placed me and with the unique gifts and capacities he has entrusted to me.

Pretty amazing, right?

I encourage you to do the same. Copy those reminders and put it on a blank piece of paper. Print it out, laminate it, and carry it with you.

Meditate on it in the morning, and if a brother in Christ is struggling with identity, pull it out and remind them of who they are.

Just as you do yourself every day moving forward.

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