Identity Found

As image bearers, our identity is so fundamentally flawed that no amount of metaphysical therapy or healthy living can heal us. Like the caterpillar, our old selves must die. And this begins when we hide ourselves, when we cocoon ourselves in Him. When we humbly admit our brokenness. When we repent, not of our humanity, but of trying to root our humanity in anything but God Himself...

The paradox of personal identity is that once we accept that we are not what we should be, we are finally in a place to be made what we could be. Once we acknowledge that we are dead apart from God, we are finally able to live in Him. Once we admit the inadequacy of our lives, we are finally able to discover the sufficiency of His.

Made For More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image, Hannah Anderson, April 2014, Moody, pp. 59-60.