The security of our identity in Christ. Our identity is actually inviolable in Christ! He knows us, for He made us, and He can reveal us to ourselves!

Who you actually are is inviolable and eternal in Him. No part of your identity is ever lost. It is all hidden and housed in Christ Himself. When Peter was given His name, it was because He saw who Jesus was.

When we look at the author and finisher of our identity, we know ourselves.

And He continuously reveals our true names to us, as we go on in Him.

Nothing can be stolen of who we are in Him. Death itself cannot steal a single line of your story, and single tone or nuance of the poem you are. There is great security in knowing this.

You cannot mess up in terms of identity as you trust Him to hold you more tightly together. In Him, we also are one integrated identity. We are His poems.

And these poems are held in Him—all the things we were meant to do and express are all there flowing in and out of Him.

The way to know thyself is to know Him, for He made and holds our entire narrative in His Own Being and Heart. We are then safe and free to be ourselves.

There is no part of your identity that is violatable in Him. Nothing can be moved in Christ. There is great security of being and identity in Christ. He knows us for He formed us in the hidden place—“knit us together in the womb and beforehand.” So we are free to become and allow Him to give us progressive revelation of who we are in Him.

We cannot miss our on identity because of who He is. No single part of you can be stolen violated or taken away in Him. We stare at Him, and walk home into our true selves.

We must learn to act as if we really do have eternal security in who we are, in Him. We have to trust Him on that. To hold us together, and to know and pronounce our narratives, even partially on the earth. He is able to cause us to stand into who we really are! And He is the only one who knows who we are anyway.

If you want to know who you really are, get to know who He really is. For you are encompassed and found or housed in Him.

We are told our names as we look to and at Him-our depth of level of gazing at Christ is the portion or measure we will get to know who we actually are. The world cannot tell us who we are. The white stone room is in Jesus. The room where our eternal names are written. He is the only source of identity.

He is, therefore we are; and we are able to discover aspects of our names even while on earth, because of who He is! He is our source in the area of identity, and in Him we are safe to become the very thing we were meant to be. Our fulfillment is in this becoming—to walk out, the “path prepared beforehand to be our way.” as Ephesians put it. We are safe to become in Christ, and there is great joy and security in this, outside of our particular circumstances. Jesus is faithful in the area of identity as He is in every other area of life. He is Lord over the nature of identity, as He is Lord over all of Reality.

In therapy or counseling, we are often trying to find out who we are, and to examine our wounds to seek healing. Jesus is not just our healer, He is also our namer! He can reveal us to ourselves!