30 for 30 (#4)

30 for 30

4. Your identity should be in Christ. 

Just like your past, sins, and failures do not define you like #3, in the same way your success, relationship, career, etc should not define you. When you look for your identity in other things they become idols in your life and you end up starting to work harder for those things at the expense of your relationship with God. We should be identified as Christ followers first before we are labeled as CEO, mom, girlfriend, teacher, runner, husband, wife, or top sales associate. The first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. When we stand before the Lord it will be our identity in Him that matters. 

Galatians 2:20-21

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!