identity
To be a Christian naturist is a case of identity.The question is....what identityYour identity is not what you represent,not a church,not a discipline,not a denominational doctrine,but who is the life in you.Identity is not and never what you do,but who. Lives In you.You were not a Christian nudist because you like being naked and confess Christianity...you are a Christian nudist because of Christ living in you.That is your identity.It is always ANOTHER PERSON living His life in you as your life.I am a Christian nudist because Christ lives His Life in me....and as a Christ-Lifer,He is my identity,however...I just happen to be A nudist.
One may ask if being a Christian nudist,you can live a life of holiness...can one claim to be Holy as a nudist when the Bible says ...."be holy for I am holy..."?what is holiness?That is a concept In Scripture that believers interpreted erroneously All their life.People equates holiness as things one does.Holiness is not and never something you do...holiness is a Person living inside you.Once one realizes that,your identity as a Christian becomes clear .Holiness stems from Christ Who lives in you.1Cor.1:30 Says that it is of God that we are in Christ,who has become for us redemption,sanctification and salvation,all the traits of holiness.Holiness is not doing,it is...be - ing already what Christ is in us.I can do no more than what and whom Christ is in me..Christ is the all who fills the all in all in me.Being a Christian nudist,and naked,as a Christian per se,is neither holy nor unholy,it is,being a Christian nudist,by whom Christ Is in me.I am clothed with Christ,and this body is a temple of God....and God by and in Christ in me,makes me Holy.Holiness is allowing Christ to be the Christ in me,letting Christ live His life in me, as me,instead of me trying to live for Christ,and trying to be like Christ..He is already whom He is in me,the fulness of God and His nature in me...There can be no other Christ....neither can I express no other Christ,than the Christ already living His Life in me and by me ...and as me.
I have been going through an identity-crisis for the last several months. My identity has been what I did, my accomplishments, the roles I played in society...all the "whats". All those things have been stripped away from, as my role as "husband" was destroyed by my wife leaving me to live with another man. That left me asking "who is that man in the mirror", because I didn't know WHO I am. As I have read, studied, and searched the Scriptures, I am slowly growing in awareness of WHO I am. I have an identity apart from the "what". It has been a slow and painful journey, because I forced to face 57 years of rejection, abandonment, and what-I-did self-esteem. Being a believer doesn't automatically give us that new perspective. It is something we have to learn and grow into. I may never be there completely, this side of Heaven, but I know that in Heaven, all this old stuff will be left behind, and I will truly and completely be a new creation in Christ.
God bless!
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