Invited In

May 15

Who are we, really? How can we define our ‘selfhood’ in any meaningful way that has not only temporal but also eternal significance? Many of us define who we are by what we do—by how we make a living—I’m a lawyer, I’m an engineer, I’m a teacher, I’m a salesman, I’m a banker.

If we go deeper than the very superficial aspect of our ‘self’ that ceases to be upon retirement, perhaps we can identify ourselves by what we enjoy—the sports activities in which we participate or watch, the card games we use to release tension. But, “What are we, really?” persists as a viable question.

The Word, in Ephesians 4:22-24, gives us some insight: “You put off your former way of life, the old man that is corrupted by deceitful desires and put on the new man, who is created after God in righteousness and holiness.” No matter what façade we may carry, the only one that matters is the one that originates in the depth of who we are in the inner man.

Once we have given Christ the right to dwell within our heart, we have opened our ‘self’ to Him and invited Him to transform us from what we’ve been to what HE is, our outer man takes on new attire. Whatever we are in the natural, our natural self takes on the accouterments of Jesus! When He makes our heart holy, our outer man becomes clothed in His robe of righteousness.