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What's up, David Pollock here. Excited to wrap up day five this week,

regularly scheduled with programming, coming back to you with Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson.

But I wanted to talk this last day about identity and the ways to define identity. A lot of

people will define identity from the outside

in. What do other people say about me? Am I pleasing them? Are they happy with me? This is not the

way that you want to build your identity because this is going to be extremely volatile,

extremely up and down like riding a roller coaster. Why? Because sometimes

people like you. Sometimes people don't. Some people don't like happy people. Some people don't

like sad people. Some people don't like rich people. Some people don't like poor people. And then there

are some people that just don't like people. And you guys know who I'm talking about. They just

don't. So it's really hard to try to get folks to like

you and consistently agree with you. It's just not, it's just not going to happen consistently.

So it's a bad way to define identity. The second way is inside out. What do I say about me?

And I will argue that's just as volatile, right? Because we got those voices on the

inside that are always telling us we're not good enough. Sometimes you walk by the mirror and you're

like, man, I really like what I see. And then other times you walk by the mirror and you're like,

man, I hate what I see. So that's extremely up and down. That's extremely, you know, very much like riding the roller coaster. So the last way and the only way to really define identity is what does God say about me? Who does God say I am? And I think, man, this can be so freeing and this can be so life-changing if you start to realize that I'm a saint that

sins right like if you start to realize that I am literally an heir with Christ that that God I am

his masterpiece and created with purpose right like that God shows me I and loved, like, that I'm a child of God.

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