When you only understand yourself with respect to the details of your life and not to the bigger picture, you’re experiencing identity myopia. The epidemic is ubiquitous; it affects us all.
So explains Hannah Anderson to Mark Mellinger in a conversation about themes from her new book Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God’s Image (Moody, 2014). “When we take the various spheres of our lives (e.g., wife, mother, writer) and then define ourselves by them,” she observes, “it creates a myopia that prevents us from seeing the full picture.” But far from being ends in themselves, the purpose of such spheres is to enable us to image our King. Identity in Christ, then, isn’t merely about being right with God; it’s about being restored to sort of image bearers he created us to be (2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10).
Watch the full eight-minute video to hear the writer and pastor’s wife from Roanoke, Virginia, discuss singleness, motherhood, physical appearance, and more.
