Living with confidence in our identity in this world.

The christian has an ego that is no longer tied to the old way of how he lives and thinks in being a subjected to the slavery of law and of sin. But we are required to live by faith in a personal reality that we do not naturally understand by our own abilities. On the one hand we are subject to the potential of being very under confident in our new identity that defines what is self.But on the other hand we have obtained by faith this working power of effecting the course of this world, both in its political structures and the potential of the dangerous working of the worlds culture. So we can be very confident in who we are in this world.
Our problems stem from having a twisted understanding in the lite of the potential danger that we could fall into....and on the other hand we imagine ourselves to be without the necessary abilities to experience the working of God through us in this new identity of self. We are subjected at times to a twisted view of how we should be passionate as we are growing in our understanding of these mysterious powers that work in us and through us that may have no connection in our minds as personally affecting the abilities we experience in this new self. Most of this is because we do not remain connected to the Head (by experience), that is we forget that we are who we are by faith in the One who has transformed us by giving us a new identity that connects us to Him and His work in how He has ordered the world. Our minds are very important in living with the understanding of this confidence. 2009