Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.
If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.
The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.
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