The Truest Thing about You Quotes

“We are often pursuing the renewal of our circumstances, but God is pursuing the renewal of our entire identity.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“Henri Nouwen pointed out that we find an identity in part through what others say about us. What others say about us can shape our self-identity in profound ways. Identities are not found; they are given. For many of us, identities are given by people who don’t have the right to identify us. True identities can be given only by God.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“You will not find your identity in what you have, but in who has you. You will not find your identity in what you do, but in what has been done for you. And you will not find your identity in what you desire, but in who has desired—at infinite cost to Himself—a relationship with you. Christ is your life. He gives you a new identity and will work that new identity out in your life until the day when He appears. On that day you will finally see clearly, as Christ sees you now. You will know as you are known. And you will understand that the truest thing about you—that in Christ God called you His beloved in whom He is well pleased—has been true all along. And is now true forever. Believe. Trust. Base your entire identity and worth on that fact.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“Slowly, achingly slowly, I was learning to understand that I am deeply loved by God, and because of Jesus, God is well pleased with me. Every other identity I create for myself is an illusion.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“The moment we call out to Him, we find ourselves already saved. Just as there is no earthly or heavenly power that can separate us from His love, so there is no earthly or heavenly power that can delay or prolong the rescue mission by which we are transformed.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“No, when we call out to Jesus for rescue, that is exactly what happens—immediately we are rescued. Saved. Snatched from the lions’ den. Jesus, God’s eternal Word and the One in whom we and all of creation live and move and have our being, is the only One who can stage such a rescue mission.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God, you’ll be at rest.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“You will not find your identity in what you have, but in who has you. You will not find your identity in what you do, but in what has been done for you. And you will not find your identity in what you desire, but in who has desired—at infinite cost to Himself—a relationship with you.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“Because of who we are in Christ, we can have things without those things having us.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“Before God tells us what to do, in other words, God tells us who we are.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“The truths of the gospel support and sustain the commands of the gospel. If we do not first understand the truth about who we are—the truest thing about us—we will be crushed by the weight of the commands.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“Whatever you believe is the truest will be your functioning identity.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“You are loved by God, accepted by God, and put in right relationship with God. It’s not by your own doing, or because you have the right family, or because you have the right education, or because you have the right desires or attractions, or because you have the right job. It’s because of the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus. Because of that your life is hidden with Christ—and nothing can take you away. You belong to God.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“What if you gained everything you ever wanted—but in the process lost your identity, your unique individuality? Is that a trade you’d make? Or would you rather save forever the unique, beloved child of God at the heart of your identity? Is that something you’d give up everything else to attain?”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“So here it is. You will not find your identity in what you have, but in who has you. You will not find your identity in what you do, but in what has been done for you. And you will not find your identity in what you desire, but in who has desired—at infinite cost to Himself—a relationship with you.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“Here’s the good news of all good news: our identity is the same as Jesus’! Beloved. Child of God. In whom God is well pleased.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“Transformation doesn’t begin with cleaning up and getting our acts together. It begins with meeting Jesus.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“This may be a corny illustration, but I think about the Gatorade commercial where they ask, “Is it in you?” It shows athletes literally sweating Gatorade out of their pores. The point is that since Gatorade is inside of them, it naturally pours out. This resonates with what Scripture teaches. God promises an internal change that takes place in those who believe, and then godly actions pour out of us as a result. That makes us ask: if the actions aren’t naturally pouring out … is God in you?”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“No—Jesus wanted to become human, to enter our world, for a simple reason. He wanted to because He wanted us.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“you have a habit of being quick to place people into categories of right and wrong, holy and profane, then what I hope is that you will first examine yourself.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

“To receive our true identity from Jesus, we must first let go of the false identities we hold.”
― David Lomas, The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters