The devil attacks your identity by making you obsess over past sins and failures. Recognizing these specific attacks makes them easier to resist. Even believers in Christ experience doubt, and the enemy exploits those moments of weakness.
How does the devil convince you that you don't belong to God? Maybe he causes you to dwell on your past, your mistakes, the opportunities you missed, compromise you made, the sin you committed. And he wants to get you to live in the shame of your sin rather than in the sense of your identity and the confidence in your identity in Christ. Or maybe the enemy begins to highlight certain flaws you have. Well, if you were truly a child of God, if you truly belong to God, if you were truly favored, you wouldn't struggle with this. You wouldn't hesitate because of that. You would— maybe the enemy will even tell you, you would have no doubt whatsoever. But the truth is that sometimes even God's children struggle with doubt here and there. So the enemy will use those inadequacies. The enemy will use those character flaws, those personality quirks, and he tries to shake you up in your confidence and your identity. Tell me in the comment section, what are some of the ways that the enemy tries to get you to question your identity? Well, think about it, because if you can identify this, then that becomes all the more easy for you to resist those attacks of the enemy.
