Someone has said: "I am who I am in the eyes of God, nothing more, nothing less."  My identity is not in my career, not in my accomplishments, not defined by others, nor by myself. God gives me my identity and with that my destiny. My identity is in Christ. I am by God's grace an adopted son of God, sharing in his divine life so that I can be with him eternally. As an adopted son of the Father, I am an heir in Christ. My inheritance is not material and temporal, but spiritual and eternal. The pledge and first down payment of my inheritance is the Holy Spirit. The Prodigal son squandered his inheritance; the elder son felt he was owed his inheritance. My response is to accept and live my identity in Christ, so that I can claim the gift of my inheritance as the grace from God that it is.