My Identity is in Christ

An old friend invited me to her place for lunch and a catch up.

Although we attended the same secondary school in Sierra Leone, I wasn't friends with her then as she was in the year below me. Years later, we met in London when she came to look at a vacant room to rent in a shared house I was living in.

Although we eventually became friends, we went through a phase when we lost touch for many years, but one day we literally bumped into each other on a tube platform. I later found she had been living in a flat right opposite the house I last lived in. At the moment, she lives about 20 minutes walk away from me. It just shows some people are meant to be in your life forever.

Anyway, while I was at my friend's house, she said, "You know, you are the most Un-African African person I  know."

"What do you mean?" I said.

"You're just so different from any of the African people I know," she said. "People look at me and know I'm African. I guess it's because I hang around with lots of Africans, but you don't."

"Oh, I get it!" I said. "My identity is in Christ. I am a Christian and I think like a Christian, which makes me look and act different, I guess."

While I still play the game of being human, I do not identify myself as the many human identity constructs. 

I am a child of God,  Christian, and ambassador of Christ. Jesus is my King. ❤️

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Relevant Bible verses:

"For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23: 7

"I beseech you therefore,  brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Romans 12: 1-2

"Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." 2 Corinthians 5: 16-17

"For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5: 21

"Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all." Colossians 3: 9-11