You're listening to Baught and Beloved with Kirby Minnick. This show is part of the Converge

Podcast Network. Hello, hello, hello ladies and gents, and welcome to the Bot and Beloved Podcast, I'm Kirby Minnick and I am so glad that you chose

to chill with me for a little bit and listen to a good word from the word hello.

Now the day that this podcast goes live, I will be walking across the stage at my university,

finally receiving my diploma after being in school for basically my whole life.

So that's pretty insane to think about. But man, God is so

stinking good and so faithful y'all, ain't that the truth? But as many of y'all know,

I have an open inbox where you can email me your topic questions for my podcast.

It's Bot and Beloved at gmail.com, all spelled out.

But this week I decided to share a quick word about something that God has been putting on my heart over

the past few days in regards to identity and our view of self and who we are and where we're

going.

I don't think that I am the only person who has struggled

with this issue before, of falling into the trap of comparing my present

identity as a child of God with my past self, the person that I no longer am.

You feel me on that?

The truth is, we have always been, and presently are, God's creation. He made us for himself, but because of the Father was a separation.

And it may take a little time for us to come to the realization that our true identity has always

been in Him and that through giving our lives

over to him we get to access full freedom because who we are in Christ is who we

were always created to be we just never unmasked that or activated it

until the scales fell off of our eyes and the Holy Spirit empowered us to walk in that

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