So Elohim created humanity in His image; in the image of Elohim He created it: male and female He created them.
Genesis 1: 27, Concordant Old Testament
I've come to realize lately that I could be in need of someone to identify with. When I say identify, I mean who it is that I feel that I am. So, who am I? Better yet, who are we? It seems that the biggest thing lately is for someone to identify with someone or something they feel defines them. I even heard of a man in the southern U.S identifying as a goat. While this might be taking things quite far, it provides you with an idea of the lengths which people will go to in order to feel accepted. Some might feel that identifying as another race might somehow ease their guilty racist hearts. While others might seek to identify as another sex entirely. Take, for example, American swimmer Lia Thomas, who made waves recently by transitioning to a "female" swimmer. Apparently, she identified more as a woman than as the male human she was conceived as. I'm interested as to what the reaction of the average every day believer would be on this issue. I can assume that, knowing the words in scripture, that Christians would know the difference between what God intended and what man desires. However, believers are human and certainly not immune to the wiles of the modern world. There might just be those few believers who think it's all well and good to identify with whatever makes them happy. Hey, whatever floats their boat. But what should we do with the truth of how God sees us? I might just be a voice in the wilderness here, but wouldn't God know better than anyone who we are? After all, He did create us {Genesis 1:27]. It is God who breathed into us the breath of life {Genesis 2:7}. This is the truth of who we really are.
Yahweh Elohim formed the human out of the soil from the ground, and He blew into his nostrils the breath of life; and the human became a living soul.
Genesis 2: 7, Concordant Old Testament
From scripture we know that the Lord not only created us but gave us life as well. How is it that we can be anything other than what God created us to be? There is but one way to achieve this, through the arrogance of man. Somewhere along the way, we accepted the lie that we ourselves are separated from the God who created us. That we no longer have any connection to Him. For the believer, this means continually striving to "Be like" Jesus. Well, God isn't satisfied with His children simply resembling His Son. It has always been the Lords desire that we would be one with He and Christ Jesus {John 17: 21}. Separation was never in His ultimate plan for us. This was simply the lie spoken by the accuser in the garden {Genesis 3:5-6}. So, over time, we substituted the lie of the accuser for the truth of the Lord. But this is much more important than saying the devil made me do it. Satan has no power over us! We, on the other hand, have the power to choose. We can choose the truth revealed to us by God. Or, we can choose the lie spoken to us by the accuser. It's our choice. Keep in mind that choice does nothing to affect the truth of who it is we are. All it does is provide us with a choice to believe in. We can choose truth, or we can choose the lie. So, who is it that I identify as? Well, I identify as Jesus {Galatians 2:20}.
We are of God. He who knows God is hearing us. He who is not of God is not hearing us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
1 John 4: 6, Concordant New Testament
~Scott~
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