Change My Identity!

'Oh Lord this is me

I’m asking you to 

please 

change my identity;

I wanna be more like you

I’m asking you to 

please 

change my identity!'

These lyrics are from one of my favourite songs called Identity, by James Fortune & FIYA. I've had this song on repeat because lately, I have had such a need to want to be changed. As God's Word is issued out from the pulpit anytime I am in church, I become more and more hungry for the things of God. I want to give more of myself to God and receive more of Him. 

Problem is, what often happens is that the flesh gets in the way. My mind gets filled with other things and before I know it, I'm caught up in my own world - again.

This can happen a lot to us believers. We have a desire to want to draw closer to God in our walk with Him but we don't fully allow Him to have pre-eminence in our lives. He should consume our thought-life but it's so easy to just get 'caught up'. 

Romans 12:2 NLT : - 

"Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect."

God's Word in Romans is asking us to separate ourselves from worldly behaviours. Allow God to change us by changing our thought patterns and our worldly ways of thinking, which includes getting 'caught up' in our own world of worries, desires and what have you. 

One definition of the word 'identify' is 'to associate with'. So, in a sense, thinking like the world means you identify with the world or you associate yourself with the world. If you think like the world, you buy into its ideas, it's expectations and it's 'will' for you life. For example, the world wants you to think that it's alright to fornicate. Continuously thinking this worldly thought will eventually lead you to putting this thought into action. In this way, you have 'identified' yourself with the world. The Bible is telling us to change our thinking. Think godly thoughts. That way, you identify more with God. See: 'then you will know God's will for you'. You identify - "associate with" God! You fall in sync with His will for ya. You and God agree on something! The will for your life :D

Once our minds and thoughts are transformed, it creates the space needed for us to know God's will for our daily lives, and that pleases God!

#ChangeMyIdentity