Who Am I to God? 10 Inspiring Answers to Strengthen Your Identity
Inside: Who am I to God? It may be the most important question of your life. Here’s how to answer and anchor your identity in the unchanging Rock. Don’t forget to download the free Scripture Cards to remind yourself daily of who God says you are to Him.
A few years ago, if you’d asked me who I was, my answer would have been immediate and sure.
First-class corporate executive and career woman. Committed, loving partner. Loyal, reliable friend. Devoted daughter.
They were the usual answers people expected to hear, the titles and roles to make them think the best of me.
As it turned out, the titles others assigned to me and the roles they expected me to play were a shaky foundation on which to build my identity. Because by the time it all came crashing down, I’d lost track of myself and had no idea who I was anymore.
I lost my job and could no longer claim to be a first-class corporate executive. My relationship broke up and I suddenly wasn’t a partner anymore. I took stock and realized most of my friends weren’t my real friends, so I had to let go of them too. And in the middle of it all, I felt betrayed because of observations people close to me only chose to share after it all fell apart.
You see, I’d spent my whole life becoming who everyone else said I should be. I let all the voices of the people who I wanted to love me influence who I became and drown out the only voice which truly mattered—God’s.
So when I was suddenly cast adrift in the middle of the storm of my life, I had to rebuild my whole identity. Thank God I started by asking the most important question…
Who am I to God?
Bonus: As a bonus for joining my weekly newsletter, get this free printable download—The Instant Pep-Talk Pack. It has 8 Scripture cards to help you anchor your identity in who God says you are, and no one else.
God, Who Am I?
What about you? Do you identify yourself by the labels your society, family, and social circle have assigned to you? Have you been defining yourself based on who others think you should be?
What if you lost your job tomorrow? Or what if your man keeps hurting you emotionally and you decide to break up? What if you get tired of feeling like you’re not good enough and end up losing important relationships?
Who are you then? What shaky foundation have you built your identity on?
When my world came crashing down around me and flung me into an identity crisis, I was shocked, scared, and lost because I couldn’t answer the simple question, “Who am I?”
Here’s the thing though. When you change the question to “Who am I to God?” and seek Him for answers, you learn to respond with confidence because you’ve anchored your identity to the only reliable Rock.
So if you’ve also built your identity on an unstable, untrustworthy foundation, it’s time to tear it all down and rebuild. It’s time to find out who you are to God so your identity will be unshakeable through any storm.
How Do I Know Who I Am in God?
Since my old identity shattered into a thousand pieces and left me scrambling to find a new one, I’ve learned that the only way to know who I am to God is by finding out straight from His word.
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You see, digging into Scripture is essential for how to know who you are in God. You need to search and study the Word to learn what God says about you and get intimate with His feelings toward you.
So…Who Am I to God?
I don’t need to tell you who you are to God, not when He can do it better than I ever could. So let’s search the Scriptures for who God says you are to Him.
The 5 Bible verses we’ll explore are foundational for your identity. So here’s how to squeeze all the juice out of them:
For each verse or passage below, I’ve given you a starter ‘Who Am I To God?’ list. You can copy it into your journal and add to it as God reveals more to you through each scripture.
Who Am I To God: His Creation
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV)
Write Your List
- I’m God’s fearfully, wonderfully, and intricately made creation. The Creator of everything known and unknown made me.
- God sees and knows me. He always has, from even before I was born.
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Bonus: As a bonus for joining my weekly newsletter, get this free printable download—The Instant Pep-Talk Pack. It has 8 Scripture cards to help you anchor your identity in who God says you are, and no one else.
Who Am I To God: Saved By Jesus
Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9 (AMPC)
Add to Your List
- I’m a confessed believer in my risen Savior, my Lord Jesus Christ.
- God saved me through Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Who Am I To God: His Child
You can tell for sure that you are now fully adopted as his own children because God sent the Spirit of his Son into our lives crying out, “Papa! Father!” Doesn’t that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a slave, but a child? And if you are a child, you’re also an heir, with complete access to the inheritance.
Galatians 4:5-7 (MSG)
Add to Your List
- I’m God’s adopted daughter and heir.
- I’m on intimate terms with God, so I can talk to Him whenever I want, about anything and everything I want.
- I’m in the constant company of the Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus, so God is always nearby.
Who Am I To God: His Temple
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 3:16 (ESV)
Add to Your List
- I’m God’s temple—His holy place—because the Holy Spirit of Christ lives in me.
Who Am I To God: A Citizen Of Heaven
But there’s far more to life for us. We’re citizens of high heaven! We’re waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus Christ, who will transform our earthy bodies into glorious bodies like his own. He’ll make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting everything as it should be, under and around him.
Philippians 3:20-21 (MSG)
Write Your List
- I have a rightful place in heaven, even while I live and work for God on Earth.
- I’m being transformed by Jesus into the woman I was always meant to be.
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Get Your Free Printable Scripture Cards (With Bible Verses to Anchor Your Identity!)
When you rebuild your identity on the firm foundation of God’s word, you anchor yourself to a Rock no storm in your life can rip you away from.
One way to secure your identity is to know what God says about you. Use these Scripture cards to set your foundation now.
- Get the free Scripture cards. You’ll get the printable cards and join my weekly newsletter. Just click here to get the cards and subscribe.
- Print the cards. You can print them on any type of paper but heavy cardstock is best so they last.
- Keep the card you need most right now in your wallet (they’re sized to slide right in next to your driver’s license and bank cards), stick it on your bathroom mirror, or prop it on the base of your bedside lamp so it’s the last thing you see at night and the first thing you see in the morning.
Here’s a sneak peek of your free printable Scripture cards:
Who I Am to God: Your Next Steps
Now you know who you are to God but here’s the thing. It isn’t enough to sit on this new knowledge and do nothing with it. Instead, you need to live daily in your Who Am I to God List.
- Practice your new identity and become who God says you are.
- Replace the lies of who others say you are and the shaky labels they’ve assigned to you with the truth from your Creator.
- Rebuild your identity on the solid foundation of God’s word.
And always remember…
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10 (ESV)
As for me, after the labels and roles I was clinging to got ripped away from me, I couldn’t answer the simple question, “Who are you?”
But I got with God in prayer and Bible study to recreate myself. This time, I established—and keep building—my identity based on what He says about me. So now I can answer with confidence because I know who I am to God.
- I’m God’s daughter, created in His image, saved by His grace, and made to do good and great things for His glory.
- I’m a woman overcome by God’s mercy and love, paying it forward to others because I’m too grateful to do anything less.
- I’m God’s servant, determined to fulfill my Master’s call on my life by walking through every door and crawling through every window He opens for me.
- I’m Jesus’ sister and friend, and the Holy Spirit’s constant companion.
- I’m God’s precious love, growing in faith every day as I anticipate eternal life with Him.
So…who are you to God?
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Such great reminders. Thank you!
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writing a study to teach with my granddaughters about who they are in christ and came to your site. thank you for the ideas on how you answered the question and so many great ideas to help me begin.