I heard a presentation about identity theft this morning. Sadly, this is a booming enterprise.

However, there’s another kind of identity theft that is far more costly and damaging. And even worse, we have done it to ourselves. We have given up our identity of being brilliant, talented, fabulous and amazing. We have given up our identity of being worthy of the best life has to offer. We have given up our identity of being a much-loved child of God – God’s precious possession.

We’ve replaced those wonderful identities with unworthiness, doubt, fear, disapproval, and insufficiency. That sounds like the crime of the century!