Releasing your New Identity

There’s a Native American Fable about at young brave who swiped a golden eagle egg from its nest and placed it with a bunch of prairie chicken eggs. The eagle egg hatched and didn’t know his true identity. He grew up thinking he was a prairie chicken. He scratched and clucked like all the other chickens and never flew more than a few feet off the ground.

One day the eagle saw a great shadow pass over him. He looked up to see a huge bird soaring with wings widespread. He marveled at the beauty of the bird. His prairie chicken brother told him it was an eagle. “A golden eagle. He’s king of the air. No bird can compare with him. But don’t give it a second thought; you could never be like him.”

And the eagle didn’t give it a second thought, but went back to clucking and scratching like all the other prairie chickens. 

Unlike the eagle, we’re all born a prairie chicken. We become eagles through Jesus Christ and undergo three fundamental changes.

1. Colossians 2:13-14 ^“And you, who were dead in your trespasses [sin] and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,  by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.” (ESV)

Jesus canceled our debt and took our sin away. We are forgiven. They are NO MORE!

2. Romans 8:15-16 “For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

“We become God’s children and thus heir, co-heirs with Christ. If indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may share in his glory.”

3. 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.”

When we accept Jesus and decide to follow Him, we become new creations. The old has gone. The new has come!