Today’s prayer…to be or not to be, is still the quest-ion!

You are faithful to form the life of Your Son in me! You are faithful. You are faithful. You are faithful to express the things You desire through me, and with me. You are faithful. You are faithful.

The whole of Reality rest on His Faithfulness. If He weren’t, the universe would collide. He is both good and faithful. That’s the center of Reality. God is good and faithful.

Now He is also faithful to instill the life of His Son in us who believe. It is not that we are able to practice ourself into wholeness. It is that He is able. The One who started a good work in me will complete it! Jesus is doing your identity work inside of you. Transforming and renewing you into His Image, and His image of you!

How does God see us. Through Jesus eyes. How does Jesus see us? As we are.

As we truly are. He sees the real self, the real you. So we trust Him to form that, even when we are partially blinded—or, as Paul wrote-cannot even judge ourselves.

He interprets us, even to us.

Jesus who created our identity, is also in collaboration with us, forming it. How wonderfully creative is that—dynamic. He who made us is re-forming us. And giving us our names over time. The identity process is entirely based in who Jesus is, and what He is doing in us.

We collaborate in forming our identity as we lean into His Identity. Peter was told who he was, as He saw who Jesus was. That’s the principle of identity formation. We get to know who Jesus is, and are told and shown who we are-over time, and through life experiences.

And the entire path of your identity is held in Christ. It cannot be stolen in Him. You are safe to become and get to know yourself in Him. He holds our stories in His Heart. Our job is to lean into and live within His Heart. Then we cannot get identity wrong, or mess it up. For our identities are eternal, and are an eternal mystery in Him, about Himself.  Our new creation selves, are a forever space within Christ! There is a peaceful resting in knowing that Jesus contains my true identity, already now, and forever.

We rest in the fact that He who made us, knows us, has searched and seen us, and we cannot really hide, as Adam and Eve tried. There is no need to hide from One so faithful and kind, who actually wants us to become who we are, and is able to reveal us to ourselves—to whisper our true names to us. The One who contains our names also reveals them to us. And, it turns out, He loves us! So we are safe to become.

 If you want to know who you really are, come to Jesus and seek out who He really is. He holds the secret of your true identity. He knows your white stone name. And He will lovingly reveal you to yourself. We can have the courage to be, because of Him. To not be, is to act as if God cannot see us. He does. Let’s choose to be!

 Then we begin to know face to Face! This process has already begun, our faces come clear, as we stare at His dear Face!