One of the crimes that is
growing fast in our high-tech, information-driven society is known as identity theft. This happens when
someone gets hold of another person’s credit information and other personal
data and uses these to make expensive purchases and carry out other
transactions in the victim’s name.
This crime is well named
because as far as the credit and banking systems are concerned, the person
using the information is the same person whose name is on the card or account.
For all practical purposes, there has been an exchange of identity.
What identity thieves
accomplish illegitimately, Jesus Christ has accomplished legitimately for
believers. That is, He has effected an exchange of identity with you. Christ
did not simply come to change your life. He came to exchange your life for His. And when we understand this, we are on
our way to being free at last.[1]
