9 Important But Forgotten Traits (Who I Am In Christ List)

Inside: Use this who I am in Christ list to pull yourself back from the brink when you’re in danger of losing your identity. And don’t forget to download the Scripture Cards. They’re your personal who am I in Christ list when you need a handy reminder.

It started with little criticisms. Occasional digs at who I was and things I did that left me feeling slightly inadequate and a tiny bit icky.

Soon enough, they became constant and started piling up. Before I knew it, I was pouring most of my emotional energy into trying to change myself so I’d be good enough for the one I loved the most. The one I wanted to love me the same way.

No wonder I ended up abandoning myself—losing my identity—to his expectations of who I should be. Eventually, I felt like a confused mishmash of a woman who always fell short of the ideal.

By the time the relationship blew up, who could blame me for not knowing who I was anymore?

To be honest, if someone had asked me back then, “Who are you?” my answer would have made me sound like my man’s ventriloquist dummy. Because all I knew about myself by then was his thoughts and opinions about me.

Now here you are, in the same boat. But don’t worry, I’ve got you.

Actually, God’s got you. Because His word says a lot about who you are in Christ.

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Who Does The Bible Say I Am In Christ?

What can you do when you’re at the mercy of others’ opinions, expectations, and desires? When you’ve lost track of who you are because you’re trying to change yourself to make someone else happy?

The answer’s simple: Go back to the source.

Dig into the words of the One who made you and knows you best. Specifically, go back to who God says you are in Christ.

After all, you’ve been saved by His grace through Jesus’ blood. This is the single most important event of your life, so you should know who it makes you.

Now, since you’re asking, this means you’re in the perfect place for a who I am in Christ list. So let’s make one.

Your Who I Am In Christ List

Open your journal to a new page and head it up, “Who I Am In Christ List.” Then start taking notes.

1. I’m Priceless

What’s the price of two or three pet canaries? Some loose change, right? But God never overlooks a single one. And he pays even greater attention to you, down to the last detail—even numbering the hairs on your head! So don’t be intimidated by all this bully talk. You’re worth more than a million canaries.

Luke 12:6-7 (MSG)

The person who’s trying to shame you into changing to suit them? They’re nothing but a bully and you don’t need to be afraid of them.

Plus, they don’t value you. If they did, they wouldn’t be trying to change you by any means necessary.

In contrast, Jesus says you’re priceless to God. Because as it turns out, you’re worth Jesus’ infinitely priceless life.

Related: Feeling Unworthy? 3 Amazing Things To Know

2. I’m God’s Daughter

For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:26 (NLT)

You’re God’s daughter because of your faith in Jesus Christ. This means our heavenly Father is your dad and you’re His precious girl.

But whoever did want him, who believed he was who he claimed and would do what he said, He made to be their true selves, their child-of-God selves. These are the God-begotten, not blood-begotten, not flesh-begotten, not sex-begotten.

John 1:12-13 (MSG)

You believe in Jesus and you’ve confessed it. And because of Him, you’re now God’s child, which is the foundation for your entire identity.

3. I’m Jesus’ Friend

I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

John 15:15 (NLT)

Jesus’ death and resurrection plus your belief and confession of Him as your Saviour not only made you God’s daughter. You’re also Jesus’ friend because of it.

Can you believe it? You’re of such tremendous value to Jesus, He chose you to be His friend.

4. I’m New

So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

2 Corinthians 5:16-17 (NLT)

The one who’s always criticizing you? Who has you feeling lost and wondering who you are? They see you from a human perspective because they don’t—they can’t—see you the way God does.

But you became a brand new person the moment you decided to belong to Jesus. God’s word proclaims this as the literal gospel truth. Even if your feelings haven’t caught up with the truth yet.

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5. I’m His

Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16 (ESV)

Because you’ve been born again, you belong to God. You’re not your own anymore, or anyone else’s either. Even more, your salvation means God’s awesome Holy Spirit is always with you.

You knew nothing of that rich history of God’s covenants and promises in Israel, hadn’t a clue about what God was doing in the world at large. Now because of Christ—dying that death, shedding that blood—you who were once out of it altogether are in on everything.

Ephesians 2:12-13 (MSG)

Back before you accepted Jesus—heck, 5 minutes ago before you started reading this article—you didn’t know, or maybe forgot, about God’s promises to His children. Remember, this includes you!

You were hopeless and clueless back then. But now you know God’s plan and promises because of who you are in Christ.

Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah. Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:4-7 (MSG)

Wow, so much to digest!

First, you’re alive in Christ because of God’s love and mercy. And you had to do exactly zero to receive this gift.

Second, you may not feel like it but you’re currently sitting next to Jesus. So next time your Negative Nelly tries ripping you to shreds, remember this: you’re beside Jesus, forever washed by His blood in God’s grace and mercy.

6. I’m Right

We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you. How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.

2 Corinthians 5:20-21 (MSG)

Again, a ton to unpack here!

First, you’re Christ’s ambassador. This means you work for Him now. Whether it’s at your job or walking through your everyday life, Jesus is your boss. And your sole purpose is to bring others to Christ.

Second, because of Jesus, you—God’s precious girl—are completely right with the Father. You don’t have to do anything to be more right with Him, and nothing you do can make you less right with Him.

But wait! It gets better.

Therefore, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.

Romans 8:1 (AMPC)

The person who keeps shaming you and making you feel lost and inadequate is dead wrong. Because you’re pursuing Christ, you’re one hundred percent right in Him, exactly as you are right now.

Related: Why Am I Not Good Enough for Him? This Answer Will Make You Feel Better

7. I’m Purpose-Filled

No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

Ephesians 2:9-10 (MSG)

Remember how we talked a few minutes ago about Jesus choosing you? And remember how, because you’ve accepted Jesus, you’re God’s daughter?

Your acceptance also means you work for God now. In every part of your daily life, you’re on His payroll.

But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.

Acts 1:8 (AMPC)

When you believed, repented, and confessed Jesus as your Saviour, you received His Holy Spirit. Once that happened, you became Jesus’ representative in all areas of your life: at home and work, in your community, and in the world.

All of this adds up to your mouth and your life becoming a loudspeaker announcing Jesus’ saving grace.

8. I’m Fruitful

I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing.

John 15:5 (MSG)

You’re connected to Jesus, which means He sustains your life. This is the most intimate you can get with another person.

Then as you remain in this state of intimacy with Him, you’ll keep growing in Him, and whatever you produce will be abundant.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 15:16 (ESV)

In this passage, Jesus was talking to His disciples. But the same holds true for you because you’re His disciple, too.

Jesus chose you. This makes you fruitful on His behalf.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them…The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

John 10:8, 10 (NLT)

Not to be harsh, but the person who you’ve let undermine your self-worth is trying to steal your identity for their own gain. They may say they’re acting in your best interest. But their motivation is selfish and they’re in it to make themselves more comfortable.

Don’t listen to them because you can’t trust a thief.

How can you know for sure what they’re up to? Well, if what they say about you contradicts what God says about you, they’re a thief.

But Jesus isn’t trying to steal your identity. In fact, you find your true self in Him. In return, He wants to give you a life overflowing with mindblowing abundance.

9. I’m Free

It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three—sin, guilt, death—are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!

1 Corinthians 15:56-57 (MSG)

Back before you were saved, you were probably afraid of death. Rightly so because it meant you’d spend eternity suffering. Meanwhile, you always felt guilty because you couldn’t stop sinning. No matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t keep God’s law perfectly.

But because of Jesus’ death and your salvation, you’re now one hundred percent off that struggle bus. Now, you’re a conqueror!

List of Who I Am in Christ: Your Next Step

You’re no confused mishmash of a woman. And you’re no one’s ventriloquist dummy, spouting off their destructive claims about who you are as if it’s the truth.

Sure, you’ve spent a lifetime of effort trying to change yourself for others. But whoever your identity thief is trying to make you believe you are—you’re not her.

You are who God says you are. 

In summary, here’s what our Who I Am In Christ List says about you:

1. I’m priceless: Luke 12:6-7
2. I’m God’s daughter: Galatians 3:26, John 1:12-13
3. I’m Jesus’ friend: John 15:15
4. I’m new: 2 Corinthians 5:16-17
5. I’m His: 1 Corinthians 3:16, Ephesians 2:12-13, Ephesians 2:4-7
6. I’m right: 2 Corinthians 5:20-21, Romans 8:1
7. I’m purpose-filled: Ephesians 2:9-10, Acts 1:8
8. I’m fruitful: John 15:5, John 15:16, John 10:8, 10
9. I’m free: 1 Corinthians 15:56-57

This is the literal, God’s honest who you are in Christ list, direct from God’s word.

So now what?

Sign up and download the Scripture cards, which are like your personal, wallet-sized who am I in Christ list. Or you can write our 9-item list of who I am in Christ in your journal, or copy it into your phone’s notes app.

Then use the Scripture cards or this who am I in Christ list often, so you never again forget your true identity. Because when you know who you are in Christ, you don’t abandon yourself or lose your identity to anyone else’s opinions, expectations, or desires.

Instead, by the empowering presence of God’s Holy Spirit in you, you’re gloriously free to become the woman He made you to be.

For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 33:4 (NLT)

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