Christlife: Embracing Your True and Deepest Identity

by Ruth Myers

In a strongly personal, interactive, and prayer-focused adventure, Ruth Myers gives us a comprehensive look at our identity in Christ, which helps us build up our self-image in truly godly way. Christlife contains wide margins to provide plenty of room to respond to the rich and reflective text, which keeps bringing us face-to-face with the realities of who we really are in Christ. This is the gracious way God has allowed each of us to become fully and freely the people He created and redeemed us to be. It means taking “all of Christ for all of me,” letting Christ become the full answer to our deepest “Who am I?”

It’s the Real You!

You don’t just belong to Christ, your life is Christ!

That’s the simple, astounding fact that leads to victory over anxiety, fear, guilt, depression, and other damaging emotions—all of which result from a false self-perception. The truth, revealed through the miracle of being joined with Jesus Christ, is liberating! Ruth Myers guides you on a healing journey, empowering you Understand who you really are—it will take your breath away! Discard false perceptions and embrace your newness in Christ Revel in the freedom of unity with your Lord and Creator Make self-acceptance and joy your daily companions

Now you can answer “Who are you?” with resounding confidence—and delight in your answer forever.

Story Behind the Book

“This book goes back to my late teens. I longed to please the Lord, but was deeply frustrated by more failure than success, especially in how I related to my younger sister. Then God used a statement in a book to flood my heart with ‘It’s not only true that our life is Christ’s, but our life is Christ.’ He is my life, so I can please Him and bring Him joy! Throughout the years the Lord has repeatedly fleshed out this truth through many Scriptures and people and experiences. I love to write about who God is, and my favorite topics are His love and His indwelling sufficiency. ‘Not that we are adequate in ourselves...but our adequacy is from God’—and especially from our inner union with Him.”

Genres: Christian

176 pages, Hardcover

First published April 27, 2005

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great devotional that was helpful for me to read through in coming to better understand my identity in Christ (which all always be a work in progress) and challenging wrongful ideas I have about myself and about who God is (e.g., God is a punisher, thinking too low and too high of myself). The devotional consists of 3 different parts: 1)Who you really are... at first, 2)Your life is Christ, and 3)Three pillars of your new identity to be read through in 40 days. (Per usual, it took me almost a year to get through it.) Each day consists of questions and scripture to facilitate further reflection. While I was not crazy that Myers used a number of different versions of the Bible when referencing scripture, I like that she uses God's word as the ultimate place we should turn to in digging deeper into who we are and whose we are. I could see this particular devotional appealing more to women than men, but Myers does not explicitly orient the text to men or women. It will be interesting to come back to this devotional in a few years and see what stands out, what is most challenging, and what is most affirming at that time.

[Debbie Cowman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great little devotional by Ruth Myers (not to be confused with Joyce Meyers).

[Cindy]

In this book you see who you are before your relationship with Christ and then see what your new identity in Christ really is. Great Book.