Human beings are not the one thing in all of creation that get to choose what is true of them; that get to be whatever they choose to be. We are not the only thing in all of creation that gets to create ourselves.
Who I think I am is the most important thing in my life. It dictates everything else that I think. (And who I think I am is apparently pretty important to others since most do not like what I think of myself, and do not take kindly to me disagreeing with who they think they are!)
No one is a Christian because they are devoted to some concept of God or some concept of Jesus Christ. One is a Christian if they are devoted by God to his precise concept of himself and his children. God, my Creator, has made his precise concept of himself and of his children abundantly clear in Jesus Christ.
I am who God thinks I am. He thinks I am his child because in his kindness he has given me the knowledge and the love of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is everything to me. Jesus is who I want to be; Jesus is who I am. This is the truth that has set and is setting me free to be what God has created me to be. Because it is not who I think I am but who God thinks I am that is important. I agree with him about my older brother and Lord, Jesus Christ, and I agree with him about me. That’s why he sent Jesus Christ to earth as a human, and that’s why Jesus Christ agreed to come to earth as a human: to inform and convince God’s children to agree with him about themselves. Any wonder he calls it “good news”?
You anger God and me if you make his desire for me out to be evil. If you make me out to be evil because I share my Father’s desire to be like him as he has revealed himself in my Lord, Jesus Christ, you are in big trouble with my Father! Thinking that way will get you killed (not the body you live in but the spirit that is the real you). Believing the lie that it is wrong for us, those created in God’s image, to be like him is killing and will result in the total destruction of the human race. God, our Creator and my father, will take the life he has given those who offend and anger him by not agreeing with him.
If you want to disagree with God and make him angry and lose your life to the beloved lie that you are a mere mortal, you can do so with no objection or opposition from me. It’s your life. The lie you believe can not hurt me because I’m not believing it. I have no fear of my Father’s anger because he has saved me from this lie and set me free to know and believe every word that he communicates to me.
God loves me and I love him. Nothing has the power to destroy our love for one another.
Who am I? Thanks to God I am the son of God and servant of my Lord, Jesus Christ! If you know God you know me. If you don’t know me you don’t know God.