Your identity, your security
On what is your identity based? What makes you you? Are you listening to our culture's definition of what and who is important? If the devil can get you at the root, the core, your very identity, all else in your life will follow suit - be messed up, confusing, and just not right. But the sad fact is that these things may "feel" or appear alright when deep down they are most certainly not. Identity is found in so many ways. The world's ways are superficial and temporary. They either crumble quickly or may take awhile to disintegrate, but crumble they will. The hard part is to see them for what they are because in and of themselves, they are not bad things. But when they become as gods in your heart and lives, they have no real substance or sustaining power because they were not meant to bring you true and lasting security and peace. Only Christ gives us that. What are these false foundations? Here are just a few: looks prestige money job title gender possess