March 3, 2026
Who You Are in Christ — Stop Living Below It
You have been confessing yourself as the addict for so long that you have forgotten the name your Father gave you. Today we re-learn it.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." — 2 Corinthians 5:17
Brother, you have been wearing the wrong identity.
For years you have introduced yourself to the Lord as the addict. The hypocrite. The fraud. The man who is going to fall again. You have spoken those words over yourself in the shower, in the prayer closet, in the mirror, after every fall. They have taken root.
Hear me on this very carefully — those words are not what God says about you.
This is what He says:
- You are His son. "You are sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:26)
- You are a new creation. Not a renovated one. A new one. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
- You are chosen. "You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession." (1 Peter 2:9)
- You are a saint. Read the way Paul addresses the worst-behaving churches in the New Testament — "to the saints in Corinth" — to a church that was sleeping with prostitutes and getting drunk at communion. He still called them saints. Saint is not what you do. Saint is who you are in Him.
- You are free. "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free." (Galatians 5:1)
- You are loved. Not "lovable." Loved. Past tense, present tense, no future tense needed because the love does not depend on time.
Look at your life right now. There is a gap between how God names you and how you live. Some of that gap is sin you are still in. We will deal with that. But a lot of that gap is unbelief — you have not yet received what is already true.
Here is the work for this week. It will sound simple. It is not.
Every morning for the next 30 days, before you check your phone, stand in front of the mirror and read the list above out loud. Insert your name. "I am the Father's son. I am a new creation. I am chosen. I am a saint. I am free. I am loved."
Two things will happen. The shame voice will scream the first week. By the second week it will get quieter. By the third week your wife will notice that something is different about you, even if she cannot put her finger on what.
The renewed mind is not theory. It is a daily, out-loud reception of what God has already said. You are no longer the addict you used to be. You are who Christ says you are. Live up out of that, not down into the old.