Your Stolen Identity - The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

It is not about climbing and clawing into some exclusive "get me to Heaven when this is all over" club or about measuring out on the good side of a divine judgment "good and evil scale" . The heart of the matter is about Restoring that which was stolen from us - namely our Identity.
Our identity is that which defines us to ourselves and consequently to others.

It is the "me" inside ourselves that we rarely reveal, it is our heart. True Christianity is about bringing us back to the place where we are what God says we are and we do not doubt it or believe anything else in our heart, it is our true identity. Out of the heart flow the issues of life. When our hearts are changed, everything else changes as a result.
Restoration

True Christianity restores us to the place and condition where we operate our lives out of our true identity as God's own covenant people. The Bible has two testaments the Old and the New, but the word "testament" means "Covenant". A covenant is a unique agreement between two individuals or groups where by the two become one. This "one" is a "one" that did not exist before the two parties entered into the covenant. The two covenants that are presented in the Bible do not conflict as may appear to some, but they compliment and reinforce one another. They are sequential, one follows the other, and their sole purpose is to restore what was lost, to bring us all back into a close and intimate union with God himself.

In the Covenant we can hear his voice; we do as He says because we are sure that He only brings our good and our satisfaction. Our true identity is in Him, we are hidden in Him and we no longer have a need to hide things, or horde, covet, or steal to get what we need. In our true identity we operate in strength and confidence because His strength is made perfect in our weakness – this is the power of a covenant.