‘For I say…to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly.’ Romans 12:3 (NKJV)
For many believers, their problems come from a lack of knowing their true identity. If you know who you are, now that you are born again, you will understand that you have been made anew through the life of Yeshua Himself within you. However, if your thinking is not aligned with Yehovah’s truth, then you may perhaps have an exaggerated or inflated idea of yourself – or even totally the opposite! You may feel that you are worthless, even though the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, has said that He has come to live inside you. Do not think too highly of yourself, or too low of yourself, but think soberly or, as the dictionary defines sober, ‘free from exaggeration, not intoxicated’. People who are intoxicated often think they are invincible; that they can do far more than they actually can safely or realistically. Alternatively, they may be easily depressed, thinking they are beyond hope. Now that you have put your trust and hope in Him, now that you are ‘in Yeshua’, what is Yehovah’s” perspective? While it is good to recognise that you are an ‘earthen vessel’, for everyday household use, remember also, that you have invaluable treasure living within you – the Ruach Hakodesh Himself. Yehovah has set you apart and wants to use you for His glory. It is so important to Him, that Yeshua covered the cost of bringing you into that relationship, through His death, burial and resurrection. View yourself realistically – a sinner, saved by grace, and born again into a new life and identity; a child of Yehovah, a saint, a righteous member of Yehovah’s family!