The Secrets of Creation Revealed: Our Identity as Children of God

Romans 8: 19-22 says:

   For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

The longings of creation

   Do you know who you are?  There is something often times hidden from us in this life that the enemy doesn't want us to know.  Yet, even creation knows who we are.  It is literally, "waiting with an outstretched neck", longing for the glory hidden in us to be revealed.  If you are in Christ (have said "yes" to Him), you get His seal of approval, the Holy Spirit in you.  You have become His child, His heir or heiress forever!  

When you really get a hold of this truth, not just in head, but in heart, changes begin to occur.  You start to act according to your new identity.  

Possibly we have received or thought of ourselves in many other ways, some of them not so great.  Maybe we have seen ourselves as "failure", "black sheep", "misfit", "lacking", "depressed", "anxious" and so on.  But, none of these have anything to do with how God sees us.  If we get a hold of what creation already knows, that we are always and forever a new creation in Christ, forgiven by the Father and held in His loving grip, nothing can stop us.

"Show us who we are, Lord."

A prayer for today:

Abba, Father, show me who I am again today, deep in my inner heart. Show me what your creation already knows.  Show me how I am seated in high places with you.  Show me how you see me again.