Monday, April 6, 2015

Who Am I? An Internal Struggle

by Author Unknown To Me
 
            The New Age movement initially fosters the idea that you have no need to look beyond yourself, for you are a god. This sort of idea did not begin with the movement. It did not take long for certain New Age practitioners to admit being in touch with Ascended Masters and other beings with similar identifications. These errors had not begun with them either. The same fallen being has long been busy introducing people to error repackaging the same old lies over and over.
 
            When a person looks inside themselves apart from the working of the Holy Spirit they often come up with self-delusion they must either cover with a great lie or open themselves up to exterior delusion. So an abusive person can convince the self-obsessed they deserve evil done to them; or, the evil beings can bring temptations such as people experience naturally or unnaturally like we see today as the devils have established great headway with gender confusion.
 
            When people exile God from their culture and their lives an identity crisis occurs in each. This is plainly revealed in the first two chapters of Romans and could be understood as not only descriptive of past civilizations but our own as well. Never forget societies are made up of individuals. We should all ask ourselves how much we are impacted by ideas that assail such as:
   “You are what you look like.”
   "You are what you buy.”
   “You’re just an animal with a conscience.”
   “You are whatever you choose to be.”
   “You are nothing.”
 
The answer probably is not a comfortable one. Even believers are assailed by the forces around them trying to distort their worldview and consequently how they see themselves.
 
            The struggle for identity can never be resolved without the recognition we are made in a two-fold image of God found in Genesis. He made us first to be representative of Him in the world and secondly two exercise dominion for Him in the world. Unfortunately man lost title to the earth through sin so the two fold image has become severely marred. When the individual surrenders his self-will to God will he begins to again become complete in Christ beginning with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. So then it is possible to look inside and see something infinitely different from what was thought to be seen without our sins, shortcomings, and failings covered by the blood of Christ.

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