Who you are....where you stand

Colossians 2:9-10 NIV:
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.

The question of identity is fundamental to our acquisition, inheritance and entitlement. Who we are and whose we are determines greatly, the things we can lay claim to. By the standards of the world alone, there are some places the child of a very rich man will have some leverage while in some areas, the child of a principled, yet maybe not-too-rich a man will stand a better chance at getting an entitlement,simply because of a father's legacy. If this rules work in the physical realm, which is just a picture of the Spiritual, how much more true will this be when it comes to our relationship and standing with God?
As the verses above specify, if you are searching for the basis of your identity, or you are not sure of where you stand or what you are entitled to, read the passage again. So many things come to light here: Christ is the full, complete embodiment of the nature, strength, power and personality of God. If you want to know who God is, get to know who Christ is. If you want to know what you get when you know Christ, study his life when he had OBEYED everything his father sent him to the earth to do. If you want to know if there's anything lacking in your life and nature, check it in the light and revelation of the life of Christ.
What this simply means is that just as Christ found his own passion and fulfilment in his father, so also we cannot find true fulfilment outside the One who created us. The creator is the giver of purpose and the One who works to bring destiny to accomplishment and nobody can truly live until his life is bound up in the hands of the Creator. As long as we run in our strength and wisdom, pushing God to thee background, claiming we are too busy for him, the more reckless and directionless our lives will continue to be. The more we are in control of our lives, the more incomplete our lives will be.
We need to know who we really are, and we can never be anything or amount to much outside the person and power of Christ himself. If the fulness of God dwells in Christ, only in Christ then can I find the fulness of God. Whatever Christ is, I am, and whatever he is entitled to by virtue of his position, I am also entitled to it. I am made complete, not by being the best graduate in my field, or by making loads of money from my business, but by having him in my life. Wealth, power, position and possessions are no guarantees of heaven; only a personal, living, breathing relationship with Christ will give you that guarantee.
I have been made cmplete in him. My life can only make sense and have purpose and direction in him. All the fruits of my life and the works of my hand can only find appropriate rewards when they are produced in the love that only a knowledge of Christ can produce. Nothing else will work. Nothing outside of Christ will make sense or be found complete.
Locate yourself inside Christ; he's the answer to all of life's questions. Let him be the answer to yours as you accept him. His time of favour is here.