Remember that trunk we found in the attic in the introduction of this book? It was filled with papers that proved you had indeed been abducted as a baby. You’d long suspected something was amiss with these people who called themselves your parents. And now your suspicions have been confirmed.
Your real parents, according to these papers, are extraordinary people—brilliant and talented—and their DNA is in you. It dawns on you that this new knowledge will change everything about your life, but you can’t stay in the attic forever. It’s time to walk down the stairs. As you descend back into your everyday life, you’ll notice that it feels like you are seeing the world through new eyes.
Now that we know what union with Christ is and why we need it, where it came from and where it went, in this next part we will come down from the attic and start to see how it will change your life. Union with Christ is a whole new mindset. It offers surprising answers to our oldest questions:
Identity—Who am I?
Destiny—Where am I headed?
Purpose—What should I be doing?
Hope—What can I hope for along the way?
You now have this wonderful new knowledge about who you are and where you came from, but as you walk back into your old life, you wonder what all this will mean. From this point on, nothing will be as it once was.