Identity Crisis

For so long, I didn’t know who I was,

I always sought the approval of men because I did not know who you created me to be.

If only I knew then what I know now, maybe my life would have been different.

I can’t change the past,

I can only learn from it,

You have shown me who you have created me to be,

I have found my identity in you.

I am now free,

There’s no need for me to please people anymore.

There is no longer a need for me to listen to the lies of the enemy.

Jesus, you showed me who you created me to be, and I can finally say that I feel alive for the first time in my life.

I feel complete.

I always wonder what was missing in my life,

Now I see I was an imposter trying to blend in with every crowd who came near me because I was a lost sheep following a make-believe shepherd.

The tears are falling down my face as I write this out,

Many people don’t know my story, and that’s okay, but you will get the glory.

You knew that one encounter with the “Friendly Stranger” would start me on a journey that would take me through a series of heartbreak, loss, and suffering to bring me to this point where I found what was missing: my identity in you, Christ.

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