Savage2Saint Sobriety Oct 27, 2025

²⁷ And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. ²⁸ There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. - Galatians 3:27-28 (NLT).

What's your identity? Who you think you are matters. In a world of he, she, they, and them, who we think we are matters and it says a lot about the person behind the identity. Shevon and I encounter a lot of people who simply don't know who they are. They are going through life confused and desperately in need of an identity that they can feel comfortable living with each and every day.

In a recent interview, Tommy Edman of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said that even though he plays baseball for a living, he doesn't identify as a baseball player. He said first and foremost he is a disciple of Jesus Christ. He said that regardless of how he plays on the baseball field, he is first a child of God, and his relationship with Jesus is what matters most to him. Not everyone has a glamorous job or a past that we can be proud of. Some of us have spent our lives identifying ourselves as addicts, alcoholics, felons, bad parents, or any of one of the many negative labels the world can hang on us. We've identified with these labels for so long that we believe that's who we are. So, what do we do to change our old identities?

In Romans 6:3-4, the Apostle Paul tells us, "Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives." (NLT). In other words, the old identity has to die in order for the new identity to live. Like Paul says in this week's key verses, if you've been united with Christ in baptism, it doesn't matter who you were before you went in the water, what matters is who you are when you come out of the water!

Are you having an identity crisis? Are you unsure who you are anymore? Are you tired of the world identifying you with a past you can't change or outrun? The answer is to follow the Word of God's instructions on burying the old identity, so you can now live a new life. Take off the old identity rags and put on the custom fit new identity of Jesus Christ that Paul talks about in Galatians 3. Then you can stop identifying with what the world wants to label you as, and you can start identifying as a child of the King! God Bless!