Born (again) Identity

So I love watching movies. And I especially love when God speaks to me and teaches me through them.

Last night I watched Bourne Identity and found it rather relatable with my life since I started walking with Jesus. For those of you not familiar with the action movie it’s about a man who wakes up one day unable to remember anything about who he is. He finds, however, that he has a rather large set of skills. He doesn’t realize his full potential at first but as the world turns against him he finds that he is more than equipped with what he needs to survive.

May he equip you with all you need for doing his will. May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, every good thing that is pleasing to him. All glory to him forever and ever! Amen. Hebrews 13:20

And that’s how it was for me when I was born again; when I fully surrendered my life to Jesus. I found that I had been given wisdom straight from God and was able to make decisions I had never had the strength to make before. And as I continued walking with God I would find myself in situations where I was doing things that were just beyond myself. Things like praying for a customer to be healed from cancer at work, going to a nursing home to pray and love old people, having just the right words for someone who needed encouragement. All of the sudden I saw people I never would have seen before, cared in ways I never cared before and most of all I loved in ways I had never loved before.

I was never really trained to do these things but all of the sudden I had the urge and ability to put myself in situations that no normal human being would choose to be in.

I wanted to go where Jesus wanted to go and I wanted to do what Jesus wanted to do.

It seems strange but if this relationship I have with God is real then I don’t know what else to expect if I live my life truly surrendered to Jesus.

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart – Psalm 37:4