Finding Your Identity in Christ
“Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.”
— John 1:12The voices around you may shape what you hear, but only truth reveals who you are.
Parable: The Lion Cub and the Echoes
In a wide valley lived a young lion cub who had grown up among restless animals.
Everywhere he went, voices followed him.
“You are weak,” said one echo.
“You are small,” whispered another.
“You don’t belong,” came a louder voice from the cliffs.
The cub believed them. He walked with his head low, moving carefully, never daring to run or roar. Though strength lived within him, he lived as if he had none.
One day, he wandered to the edge of a still lake.
There, an old lion stood beside the water, calm and unshaken.
“Look,” the elder said.
The cub hesitated, but slowly gazed into the reflection. For the first time, he did not see the creature the voices described—he saw something different. Something strong. Something familiar.
The elder lion spoke gently, “The voices you hear are only echoes. They repeat what is spoken—but they do not decide what is true.”
The cub looked again.
Then something rose within him.
A deep, unfamiliar sound began to grow in his chest—until it broke free in a roar that echoed across the valley, stronger than all the voices before.
And in that moment, he no longer listened to the echoes—because he finally knew his own voice.
Moral:
The voices around you may shape what you hear, but only truth reveals who you are.
The voices around you may shape what you hear, but only truth reveals who you are.