Who I Am In Christ Devotionals

As soon as he came up out of the water, he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well-pleased.” Immediately the Spirit drove him into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan… Mark 1:10-13 Jesus is mine and I am His. And Jesus, according to this passage pleased God the Father. This means much for me and my life; Let me explain. Paul says to the church in the book of Colossians - “So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God .” Colossians 3:1‭-‬3 CSB So let me try to pull this together. Jesus was pleasing to God the Father. I have died with Him. My life is hidden with Christ in God. What? My dirty, sinful, messy self is hidden. With Christ. With Christ. And that makes

  He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, he gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born, not of natural descent, or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man, but of God.  John 1:11-13 I have a right to be a child of God. What? I am so blessed to be a believer today. What grace He has given me to be able to open my eyes wide enough to see Him! Even many of His own people did not. Still, some did. Oh, and like me, He gave them the right... ...to be children of God. That is a phrase needs some of my attention. It says that He gave them the right. The right. What is a right? In the United States of America we talk about rights. We have a bill of rights. The people who wrote the constitution declared that Americans have these rights, meaning, they can't be legally taken away from you. I am a child of God by right. Not because I was born on one side of a border but by the declaratio

In him we have boldness and confident access through faith in him. Ephesians 3:12 Unending, God-given Supply I am bold in Him. Right? Oh my, I don't feel so bold. I feel kinda timid. I don't want to open my mouth. I don't want to reveal my thoughts. I carry around old remembered shame from my childhood. I'm afraid of getting hit with even more hard knocks. But this verse says I HAVE boldness. Now. Present tense. It's mine. So who should I believe? The scripture or me? The scripture. So I actually DO have boldness. What is boldness for? It's boldness to speak the truth and do what is right. It's boldness to love God with all my heart, mind, strength, and soul. It's boldness to love my neighbors as myself. How many times I have stayed silent when I should have reached down deep for that boldness that IS THERE in an unending, God-given supply, and spoken out. To grasp the boldness to work against an evil, to work against a lie. I Am Empowered The bible says

  But now, thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine. Isaiah 43:1 I Can Sometimes Forget Who I Am I am a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, but I can forget who I am: His bondservant. He owns me. If I think I can be a Christian and not BELONG to Him, I am wrong, wrong, wrong. And He'll show me. Ouch. He formed me. And smack dab in the middle of my messy rebellion, He redeemed me (bought me) out of the darkness into His glorious light. This is no group role call. And I'm not sure who heard it (the host of heaven maybe). He called me by my name. This is a person to person transaction. He says, "You are mine." To me. And He used my name when He did it. And He says to me, "Do not fear." I Belong To The One Who Formed Me Why? When you belong to the one who formed you and everything else in the universe, you get His eternal protection. You get to