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On spiritual identity
Ivonne Hernandez C Lascaiba
Havana Cuba

T

he lack of identity causes that things
going right today go wrong tomorrow. Thus, you become unstable and
insecure. Identity means knowing who you
are, what your values are and where you
want to go, as well as understanding what is
the purpose for which you were created and
what is the vision that God planted within
you. This identity goes beyond your language, race or nation, because it comes from
God and it will manifest later in your behavior. When a person is convinced of such an
identity, he or she feels joy and externalizes
it since this kind of identity is carried in the
heart. However, both the enemy and the
carnality do not want your identity to become evident in order to keep you in the
same condition: imprisoned, captive and
enslaved. To fight the battle for your identity, you must first fight against the principalities and the powers that be, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world and against the
spiritual wickedness that steal all the truth
and maintain the deceptions and lies. When
it is not clear what measures your worth as a
person, then you're looking for things that
ultimately do not satisfy you. Maybe you
have a very low self-esteem and start to
identify yourself and even to call yourself by
the problem, for instance: I am the most
miserable or the more useless person, or I
am living in the poorest country with hunger
and disease, or I am rejected and discriminated because of my skin color. This creates
a dark force in your spirit and you admit that
the wrong will determine your future. There
are countries with lack of identity, extremely
poor and completely in crisis, because they

not to follow the divine design of God, but
others live in a good economic condition
and accumulate huge profits without having
identity. Neither the good life nor the race
give identity. Today the world values you
for your possessions and not for what you
really are, but no child of God is a failure.
You will always achieve victory, be the head
and not the tail; you will be above and not
below because your faith will conquer the
world. There is neither a weapon conceived
against you that can defeat you nor a language able to condemn you. God will never
leave you. Although you pass through the
valley of the shadow of death, God will
always be with you; His rod and staff will
encourage you, and his good and his mercy
will accompany you every day of your life.
There is a good news: You are not an accident, you were created by God, who took
care of you before you were born. Your
birth was neither a mistake nor a misfortune,
your life is not a fluke of nature. Your parents did not plan it: God did it long before
you were conceived. You were designed in
the mind of God, who thought of you first. It
was not because of fate, chance or luck; God
designed every feature of your body, chose
your race, the color of your skin, your hair,
your body to the extent He wanted. He also
granted all the natural talents you possess,
the uniqueness of your personality. God
knows you inside and out, every bone in
your body; He planned you place of birth
and where you would live. Your race and
national