When I Forget Who I am in Christ

This is an adapted personal insight:.  Please, do not forget who you are in Christ!

When I Forget Who I Am In Christ

by Joanne Jung

When I forget who I am in Christ I doubt myself 

and I don’t always act with the characteristics of Christ.

I compare myself to my Christian friends and their relationships.

I get angry easier and I don’t forgive, as I should.

My relationships end up strained especially with my family 

and I hide things from my friends.

And because of the strain on my relationships I get upset,

which doesn’t help at all 

and I don’t want to admit my feelings or my wrong actions.

I essentially turn inward and “self – destruct”…

I have realized that when I forget who I am in Christ, 

I am a darker person.

I am angrier, and I feel all alone…

My relationships are fragile when I forget who I am in Christ,

I am short with people, I brush them aside.

When I forget who I am in Christ, I am ugly.

I can’t control my emotions and I seek to find temporary

and unneeded satisfaction in unnecessary things…

I close up my insides and lock it so no one can come in.

My relationships barely hold on by a thread. 

I am seriously and ultimately empty.

Low, down in the pits, a dull nagging that everything is never enough,

and just overall lost in what I am supposed to do.

Most of my relationships will also decline 

or become “me” or “sin” centered.

I tend to be frustrated and in a perpetual hectic mode 

in order to please my own selfish desires.

My relationships with people are bad.

I tend to be more selfish 

and less considerate of other people’s feelings.

I begin to be judgmental of things that are minor 

and try to challenge people in unhealthy ways.

When I forget who I am in Christ, I’m easily irritated with my family.

When I forget that I am complete in Christ, 

I seek fulfillment from the wrong things,

I seek to define my identity based on how I perceive myself, 

which is never satisfying.

 I am a lot more depressed, a lot angrier, more solitary, 

and definitely more confused. I look dead.

I don’t want to open up or become transparent with my friends.

I fight and argue with my friends. I hold grudges more and longer.

When I forget who I am in Christ, 

it brings out the worst in me (it brings out me).

I have a short fuse. I put myself first.

I am too proud to admit that I have issues that need to be addressed.

I fail to trust the Lord.

Then when I go out, 

I put on a mask to hide the reality of my struggles. 

I am like a tomb.

Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God,

but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

Romans 7:24-25

For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,

and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;

Colossians 2:9-10