{"id":4156,"date":"2023-10-31T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arisesister.com\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2023-10-31T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T07:20:24","slug":"protecting-your-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisesister.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/protecting-your-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Your Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One thing common with all oppressors is they try to wipe out the identity of their victims completely because in so doing, they can easily gain control over them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Germans did this during the holocaust in their horrific \u2018death camps\u2019 by taking their victims\u2019 names and giving them numbers instead. Reducing them to nothing but another number. The colonizers did this by imposing their names, languages, dressing style, administrative and justice systems just to name a few on their victims. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The underlying goal in all those actions was to wipe away any sense of true identity and impose a new one, a false one. If the oppressor can get their victims to somehow believe that they are the same, after all sharing the same names, dressing similarly, must mean that they are the same and share the same goals then gaining total control over them will be a walk in the park. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nebuchadnezzar used this same system when he captured Judah. He selected some people to basically indoctrinate by teaching them his language and literature, making them eat his food and ultimately being like one of his (See Daniel 1:1-5). He intended for them to forget who they really were, to forget their identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Daniel and his friends however were aware of his scheme. That\u2019s why when offered the \u2018privileges\u2019 of their oppressors they adamantly refused to succumb. You have to know that this wasn\u2019t an easy decision! Daniel and his friends were being offered a lifestyle that anyone at that time would probably give up anything to have. Babylon was the biggest empire at that time (think the USA today), Nebuchadnezzar was feared and revered not just as a king, but as a god! These boys were being offered the food, the clothes, the lifestyle of Nebuchadnezzar himself! Yet, they turned it down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c<\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\u202d\u202dDaniel\u202c \u202d1\u202c:\u202d5\u202ca ESV\u202c\u202c<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Daniel resolved to fight to keep his identity! Though surrounded by all this exotic food and lifestyle, he fought to protect his identity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c<\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king\u2019s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">Daniel\u202c \u202d1\u202c:\u202d8\u202c \u202dESV\u202c\u202c<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Looking at the world today as a Christian woman, we\u2019re in a kind of Babylon. We\u2019re surrounded wherever we turn by lifestyles and ideologies that are slowly seeping into our churches and homes. If we don\u2019t resolve like Daniel did to protect our identity in God, we will be transformed into a false version of ourselves. We\u2019ll take on the identity of the world and forget who we really are. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So today, here\u2019s a reminder of who you are; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c<\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">1 Peter\u202c \u202d2\u202c:\u202d9\u202c \u202dESV\u202c\u202c<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Say this out loud; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">I am chosen by God<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">I am holy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">I belong to God<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">My life proclaims his excellence <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019ve been called out of darkness into his Marvelous light<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">Therefore go out and live like who you truly are! 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