Identity change is slow. But it’s real. And it’s already happening in you.
You don’t look the same as you did when this started. Not on the outside — on the inside. Something has shifted, even if you can’t fully name it yet. The way you respond to temptation is different. The way you return after a fall is different. The way you see yourself is starting to change. That matters.
Identity change happens slowly, then suddenly. Most men don’t notice the shift until they look back. You’re in the middle of that shift right now. The man you’re becoming is not who you were when this started — and he’s not finished yet. Let the process complete what God started.
“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory.”
2 Corinthians 3:18
How are you different now than when you started this devotional? What has shifted — even slightly — in how you see yourself or respond to temptation?
Lord, I am not who I was. I don't say that with pride — I say it with gratitude. Something has shifted in me that I didn't manufacture and couldn't have earned. You did that. In the hard days, the failed days, the days I got back up — You were building something. I can feel it now. Thank You for not giving up on the process when I wanted to. Thank You for the man I'm catching glimpses of — the one in the mirror who is starting to look familiar in a new way. I believe You started something good in me, and I'm asking You to finish it. Not someday. Now. Keep transforming me — day by day, decision by decision — into the man You always saw when You looked at me. I am not who I was. And I am not yet who I will be. But I am Yours, and that's enough to keep going. Amen.
Write a letter to the man you’ll be in one year. Tell him what you’re fighting for right now. Let it pull you forward.