We need to be seen, to be heard, and to be known. We need others to “get” us – to understand and relate to what we’re thinking and how we’re feeling. And when they don’t, we feel suddenly cut off – lonely and achingly empty. When others understand us, they are helping us carry our burdens and banish our fears. We’re no longer on our own. We draw strength from being seen, being heard and being understood.
Every day, for the last 8 days, I’ve talked about how to radically shift your identity in Christ. The secret to real, lasting transformation of your identity, is to open your heart and receive what God wants to give you.
2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”
When you were born again, God gave you new spiritual DNA. You aren’t who you used to be. New life is in you. God’s life!
Our spirits were immediately transformed to be like Christ when we were born again. But our souls (our minds, wills, and emotions) are transformed (made like Christ) over time and through a Biblical process.
Ephesians 4:22-24 explains the process:
22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness..
Our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and desires must be “renewed.” We replace the old with God’s new.
Romans 12:2 NLT
“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you…”
We don’t let the old emotions, thoughts, desires and beliefs control us anymore. We renew our minds with what God says in His Word. As we do, God changes us to become like Jesus. We are transformed into a new person as we let God change the way we think.
God generously offers us the heart connection we so deeply desire. Here’s the truth: God sees you, knows your dreams and your pain. God understands. He is with you and He is on your side!
Isaiah 49:15-16
"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands…”
God Sees You
Proverbs 15:3
"The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good."
2 Chronicles 16:9
Jeremiah 12:3
Matthew 6:4
God Hears You
Jeremiah 29:12
"Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you."
Isaiah 65:24
"Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear."
Psalm 34:17
Psalm 145:18-19
Psalm 116:1-2
God Knows You
Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Psalm 139:1-4
"You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue, you, Lord, know it completely."
Jeremiah 17:9-10
1 Chronicles 28:9
1 Samuel 16:7
Ezekiel 36:26
This is your true identity. You are seen. You are heard. You are Understood. Live from your new identity of heart connection to Jesus Christ!
