Identity

I am Lacy Craig; daughter of the caring, sweet and forgiving Jill Craig; sister of the talented, passionate and confident-in-Christ Brodie Craig.. I am a writer, and a painter, and I love to laugh and talk with my friends.  I love being girly but surprise people by my affinity for the outdoors.  I go to the good ole’ Samford U. and love my journalism major.

I’m a pro at owning that self-description.  When asked the timeless interview question, what are three words to describe you, I am ever prepared to answer ‘creative, a leader, and outgoing.”  But that’s not who I am. 

Beneath the surface of that bubbly people-person is a wildly insecure girl.  Who’s surprised? No one? I figured as much.  I’m not very good at hiding it.  Like so many women, and men even if they deny it, I struggle with feeling unwanted, undeserving, and worthless.  I’ve searched for my satisfaction and self-worth in the approval of others, in the love of my absent father, in my weight and appearance, and I’m here to tell you I never found Waldo on those pages of my life. 

So as a Christian I’m not defined by my appearance, by my popularity, by my earthly dad’s love or lack thereof, by how interesting I am to others, or by who wants to know me…that list could go on forever. But instead my relationship with Jesus Christ means something so wonderful it’s all I can do not to shout it. 

In Christ I was made a new creation. The old has gone, and the new has come. 

II Corinthians 5:17

Because of Christ, NOW I AM….

…a receiver of God’s grace that far supersedes my worst sin. 

“Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.” Romans 5:20

I am forgiven all my sins.

“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which he LAVISHED upon us.”  Ephesians 1:7

I am able to walk worthy of the Lord. 

“so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”  Colossians 1:10

I am blameless.

“And you who were dead in your trespasses, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses by cancelling the record of debt that stood against us.”  Colossians 2:12-15

I am ACCEPTED in the Beloved. 

“We are adopted as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved.”  Ephesians 1:6

I am CHOSEN.

“For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you…” I Thessalonians 1:4

“And by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain.  On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was NOT I, but the grace of God that was with me.”  I Corinthians 15:10