12 “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.”
John 1: 12-13 NIV
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When I read the above scripture I am taken back for a moment because of what His word speaks over me. ‘We are born of God’…..When I read this I cannot fully wrap my mind around what this means, my flesh doesn’t understand it. And I find my mind and my spirit at odds with one another as I cannot fully grasp this in a worldly context. We are not an accident, we are not a mere decision that man decided, it is not my mother’s will or my father’s will that I am here. We are born of God. His life and breath are in us. We are wonderfully and beautifully woven together in our mother’s womb and are His Children chosen for a time such as this. There is no mistake here. Just writing this gives me strength and an empowerment knowing who I am in Christ Jesus.
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
2 When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze.”
Isaiah 43: 1-2 NIV
But it’s hard for me to fully believe at times that God knows me, He sees me, He truly loves me and delights in me. That He calls me His own and chose me through adoption into His family to be a part of His inheritance and become His daughter. It is such a burden that I carry not believing this deep in my spirit as though He has to prove this to me over and over again. And I so easily turn my back on Him thinking I am not worthy. Doesn’t He know what I did yesterday? Doesn’t He know what I did this morning? Doesn’t He know my thoughts and what I said? It is as though I have to prove to Him that I am not worthy to take on this identity and call myself ‘A Child of God.’ It hurts too much to take on this title that my mind convinces me…..it is easier to reject it. How can He love me when He knows who I truly am? And all along He is there with His arms wide open waiting for me to receive what was already there from the beginning, His love that empowers. And through His graciousness He speaks life into me over and over again through the power of His word, desiring for me to believe it for myself. He chose us, He sees us, He calls us His own. He loves us and desires to be close to us. We are born of God. This is our identity.
“I, even I, am he who blots out
your transgressions, for my own sake,
and remembers your sins no more.”
Isaiah 43: 25 NIV
The enemy does not want us to believe this for ourselves. The enemy does not desire for us to grasp this revelation and stand boldly knowing who we are in Christ Jesus. He does not desire for us to break down those strongholds that entangle us with sin by believing in the truth that is God’s word. Because when you know who you are as a Child of God, and have experienced the love of God that pours through you for yourself, then you can turn and be healed breaking the chains of sin. God desires for us to find true healing so we can then pay it forward and be Christ for those around us. But it first starts with understanding who we are. We are born of God, we are His Children, we are Loved. This is our identity. For further reading take a look at the blog- The God of Invitation. https://godlywives.blog/the-god-of-invitation/
I pray you come to know your worth and identity in Christ Jesus, so you can stand bold and brave diminishing the lies and torments of the enemy. I pray you stand firm in knowing who you are and who you belong to. And even though the world tells us that we are not enough in ourselves, we can stand tall knowing that we are Children of God, not by our works but because we have a Father who invites us to see ourselves as He sees us. Loved as His Children. This is our identity.
Nadia x
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