Who I Am In Christ Devotionals

Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately. When he had contemplated this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus because he will save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:19-21 Who am I in Christ? I am a saved man. Saved. Not dead anymore. Saved. Not just a little bit. 100% saved. It’s like when Harvey, our cat, brought a live rabbit into our house one Sunday evening. We took the rabbit out of Harvey’s mouth and set him free behind our house. The rabbit was saved.  There are differences though, right? It was goo

Our help is in the name of the Lord , the Maker of heaven and earth. We have escaped like a bird from the hunter’s net; the net is torn, and we have escaped. Psalm 124:7-8 Maker of Heaven and Earth As a believer in Jesus, a grateful child of the king, I am an escapee. See, I have escaped the clutches of sin. And I have escaped Hell. When’s the last time you thought about it? I admit, I don’t think on this very often. Maybe there should be a day set aside for fasting and praying to remind me to be grateful that I’m not going to Hell. I’m a cleaned up citizen of Heaven. And notice this: my help is in His name, and just so I don’t get it wrong, the verse is talking about the Maker of Heaven and Earth. Why is that important? Made Up gods Because even as a child of God, I can dream up a god of my own design in a blink. I can trim an attribute of God off here, or a truth about Him there. I can be filled with such denial that I convince myself that this is the God of the bible. Why would I do