Daily Word

The greatest discovery of your life – finding your authentic self, the unique and genuine person you were eternally destined to be.

If you have found your authentic self, your whole life becomes genuine and you can fulfil your life's task and realize your calling.

If not, your whole life, everything you are and do becomes false and you have wasted your life, lived in vain.

Paul was proud of his background, education and religious devotion. He thought his life passed the test of authenticity - until he met Christ, the Authentic Man. Illuminated by Him, he discovered to his horror that his whole life was a complete sham, that everything he valued so highly was not worth a rotten berry compared to Christ.

Christ is the royal man, "the fairest among the sons of men," and He has come "to seek and save that which was lost": the lost, false man, who has lost the real life, the life of Christ, the pure, unadulterated life of glory, the life of the spirit.

What do I find when I gain Christ and am found in Him?

My lost self, the glorious person I was eternally destined to be!

When Christ becomes my life, I find my life, myself, and become real. I find my authentic self as the image of God. This is what the Bible calls righteousness: being approved by God, being exactly who He wants me to be.

Such a life is possible only through the Spirit of God.

It is the Spirit who makes us authentic people.

The life of the Spirit is the life of Christ, the real life, true righteousness.

Therefore, it is a life free from tense and anxious performance in constant fear of not measuring up or failing, free from constantly walking around feeling that you are not really who you should be and not doing what you should be doing.

This is the greatest discovery of your life - because until you have made it, you are not really living!