Confused about your true self? I was too, until I discovered this.
“Who am I?” A question that has stayed stuck in my mind for the most part of my life.
I’ve searched for the answers to this question tirelessly.
Freedom is what I’ve always anticipated the day I found the true answer to this question.
In an attempt to find my true self, I’ve tried to match my identify with my career, my gift, and many times, with what I aspire to be.
Like how a player would select a character in a Mortal Kombat video game, I would pick an identity at any occasion depending on the need.
At work needing to complete a task? I’d put on the “writer’s” identity.
On stage needing to present artistically? I’d pick the “artist” character. Whether that’s an entrepreneur, a singer, a content creator, I would switch identities to secure an authority, to find some sort of power in order to bring forth some sort of solution.
Have you ever experienced such a thing? where you feel lost, or there are too many options to identify with and you run confused and weary.
One moment you needed to see yourself as a dancer, and the other a businessman or woman…
And maybe you’ve struggled trying to identify with either of your options, and for every option you settled for, it wasn’t satisfying. And if it did, it was just for a moment. But alone in your room, you felt lost.
You’ve put up several identities on your Instagram, wanting to fill that core desire to identify with someone and be vocal about it.
If you ask me, that’s been my song for many years.
And since the world painted it as normal, I went with it, but deep inside I knew there was something more — some sort of identity I could refer to, cling on to, and would be my one-size-fits-all.
Countless times I’ve been confused on what to hold on, and what’s that one identity I can be identified with.
I would picture myself show up at work, at school, in a meeting, for a date as one person, with one identity. Be confident about it, and walk in its authority and power every time.
Just the thought that I don’t have to be someone else every time, and I can be this one identity, made me feel so free.
Last night my mentor, Isaac Mallonga shared an answer to a question I’ve had for so many years.
That, despite all the needs that arose in Jesus’ walk, He stuck to only one identity. Whether that was paying tax, healing the sick, and everything in between — only one.
“There’s a man who used only one identity to solve all the problems that were around Him.” — Isaac Mallonga
Jesus was always THE SON OF GOD. period. He never related as a carpenter, a Nazarene, a Jew, or anything in between. He was always referring to Himself as THE SON OF GOD. (John 5:19, 5:26.. and many more)
Even demons knew Him by that same identity (Mark 5:7)
When He asked His disciples, “Who do you say I am?”, Peter, one of His disciples got it too. (Matthew 16:16)
He Knew Who He Was.
Do you know what this means?
As one who is searching for your true self, it means someone has presented you with the opportunity of finding true FREEDOM.
A freedom to become your true self, as you accept your God-like origin…
Not needing to trial and error, pretending to be what you are not. You can tap into your true essence, and stick to it regardless of the situation.
You can reallocate and realign to your true identity as a SON OF GOD. (or, if you like it, and would make it feel more relatable as a woman, then, a DAUGHTER OF GOD)
With this, you never have to realign to any other.
And for just that one identity, you can do the impossible across all aspects of your life.
That one identity suffices.
To me, that’s more than relieving.
It has given me hope for the year, and a focus to realize this identity every day for the rest of my life. To see it’s limits, it’s power, it’s authority.
It’s like finding my lost self. I am so excited to open the books to re-learn my true identity and live it to the fullest.
It’s a quest I’m more than willing to take.
Are you willing to be curious in search of your true identity?
