Like the Mickey Mouse costume my friend used to wear at Disneyland, this is a new identity we must choose to put on each day. “Put on the new self” (Eph. 4:24). But when we do, and as we go through life as one who is hidden in Christ, then those lists of “Who I Am in Christ” will cease to be abstract truths outside of us. These are not simply words on a page—these are realities rooted in our union with Christ. I am forgiven. I am loved. I am redeemed. I am a new creation. I am a new self.
