As muddled a topic as identity can be in the lives of people, I have found God’s Word to bring great clarity on the topic of identity, self-worth and value.
The idea of identity is one of those nebulous concepts that can be hard to understand. Yet, in my pastoral and counseling ministries, I consistently deal with the implications of how people identify themselves.
I have found there to be much confusion on this topic and a myriad of opinions in our culture concerning this matter. Is my identity something I discover? Is it something that is assigned to me? Is it something that I am supposed to create? As muddled a topic as identity can be in the lives of people, I have found God’s Word to bring great clarity on the topic.
A Working Definition for Identity
One theologian I heard talk on this subject described identity as a sense of self and a sense of worth. This has to do with how a person values themselves in light of what they do or how people see them. There are so many facets around this description. Without unpacking them all, for our purposes in this blog, seeing
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