Free from the tyranny

Dan Cruver offers a beautifully succinct explanation of what's at stake in finding our identity in Christ:

I have lived long enough to learn from experience that if I am not functionally finding my identity in who I am as God’s beloved son, as a co-inheritor with my elder brother Jesus, something else will step in to be my functional identity. If the good news of my adoption as a son through Jesus Christ is not what functionally defines me, by default I will seek to be defined by something that was never meant to define me.

Amen.