IN GOD’S EYES, bones hold deep significance. The Hebrew word for bone, etsem, means “self.” Even after flesh has decomposed, bones still retain a person’s “self,”
their identity.
People may alter their appearance or take hormones to change who they are, but no one can change their bones. Our identity isn’t up for grabs. It’s sacred.
Forensic anthropologists reestablish identity from bones. When someone dies in a fiery crash or is murdered, their bones testify that they existed. A single bone reveals someone’s ancestry, age, height, and sex.
Our identity is so important that God put it in something that doesn’t decompose. Years after we’re gone, our bones testify that we lived.
Bones have a spiritual connotation because spiritual identity is absolutely essential.
Some people die never knowing their spiritual identity. They may have a big funeral, but if they didn’t walk in their God-ordained purpose, there’s no eternal evidence they ever lived. I don’t want to just live my life; I want to fulfill God’s purpose for me.
Following God isn’t about asking Him to bless our plans. It’s about living the life He predestined before we were born. We are not our parents’ idea; we are God’s idea. Our identity isn’t random; it has function, just like every part of our body has a purpose.
During Jesus’ first coming, people were positioned to fulfill their divine purpose. Now, before Jesus’ return, we must do the same. We don’t know when He will return, but our generation lives in a time of increasing acceleration. That makes it crucial to step into who we were created to be.
OUR IDENTITY IS MEANT TO BLESS OTHERS.
Satan, the enemy of our souls, knows how powerful identity is. He hates it because within it is His undoing. He works relentlessly to deceive believers, redefining their identity so they live as if his lies are true. When we don’t walk in God’s purposes, we fail to live in the truth meant to set us free.
But the truth doesn’t change. If we don’t step into it, we lose the ability to live it out. Learning who we are is never a private victory. Our identity is meant to bless others. That’s why the enemy works to keep us from walking in our purpose.
Satan doesn’t just attack our minds; he works in our lives through things that happen to us. He wants bad things from our past to define our future.
He uses trauma, loss, abuse, or betrayal to define us. He uses childhood wounds, broken relationships, and pain to rewrite our identity, hoping the past will define our future. But we are not what happened to us—we are who God says we are.
The enemy is content with us getting just enough from church to survive but not enough to be part of an army that shifts the world. He wants us to remain bound by past experiences instead of stepping into the freedom of our God-given identity.
But God is greater than our past. Our identity can be restored.
Second Corinthians 3:18 (AMP) says, “And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit.”
We reclaim our identity by looking into the mirror of God’s glory. There, we see the identity God gave us. It doesn’t matter if we look like it, feel like it, or act like it. The truth of who we are in Christ remains.
In the Old Testament, God’s presence dwelled in the temple. In the New Testament, the Holy Spirit dwells in us. We have access to God’s presence anytime and anywhere.
None of us is so smart that we don’t need intimate time with God. In His presence we find ourselves and are restored. Whatever the enemy has done to us can be undone in God’s presence. There, we are redefined by the truth.
Author
Patsy Cameneti
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