Have you ever dealt with imposter syndrome? It's that feeling that you don't belong, or that if someone else found out about who you truly were, then they'd surely kick you out. It's an awful feeling, made worse by the fact that it's rarely based in reality. I've come to the realization that most of us are simply making it up as we go, doing the best we can to get by.
Well, I don't think most of us often feel blameless and holy before God. I certainly don't. Do you feel like you've been blessed with every spiritual blessing? That's a hard thing for most of us to grasp. Often, when I come before God, I feel like I need to spend a few minutes beforehand stuffing some things in the closet and hoping God doesn't notice!
But Paul is writing this because he knows that most of us don't feel this way. That's why we need to be reminded that our feelings can deceive us. This is true, regardless of whether we feel it or not. Our identities have been transformed because of God, and that doesn't matter if you feel that when you wake up. It's true because of what Christ has done, not because of what we have or haven't done. It's an identity change -- we have been adopted through an act of sheer grace by Christ. The more we're reminded, the more opportunities we have to live into it, to let it define us and how we interact with one another.
But it's true. You belong to God, and the world cannot change that, no matter how much the world may bombard your heart with other messages. Let Scripture remind you of what is really true -- you are God's!
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