How many times do we fail to believe the truth in the Bible that we are holy, dearly loved, pure, blameless, chosen, children of God, etc.?
It’s easy to play it off as something we are working for but not there. Or just a quality that we would like to have, but don’t.
It is easy to look at the lives we live and be quick to condemn ourselves that we are sinners and broken and not worthy to be called those things. But lucky for us our human logic is completely the opposite of what the Lord calls us to live in.
The Lord sees us in our brokenness and muck and calls us to be his sons and daughters (redemption). But from that point forward He no longer sees the mess we make or the sins we commit because we are pure and free and holy in His sight.
In Ephesians Paul writes, “Live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” (4:1)
By not believing we are worthy or walking out as a broken sinner we are truly slapping God in His face saying that we don’t deserve the gift His son gave us on the cross. But it isn’t about deserving. It is about accepting the reality that we are fully new creations on a journey of sanctification.
So does that sound silly. How can we be fully holy but still in the process of becoming holy?
Its like I am not a runner. I don’t like to run. But if I start running daily can I call myself a runner? Or do I need to wait until I have run a marathon or some great feat of the like that will make me an official runner? No, I can start being a runner today and as I train more and more I will grow to be more of a runner.
So as a child of God we can fully claim our identity in these things without having to fell bad or have false humility because we are FULLY holy, dearly loved, pure, blameless, chosen, children of God while being on a process of becoming those things.
John Mark Comer defines this in his book, Love-ology, as “‘eschatological realism,’ which is a way of saying you are in the process of becoming who you really are.”
So today, as a Kingdom believer, you can claim that you are holy, dearly loved, pure, blameless, chosen, children of God because your identity is rooted in the future – who I am becoming.
