I open the email…
“Hi Barb,” it begins…
I chuckle…
My name is Bob…
The person sending the email knows me…
A typo?
Auto correct doing its thing?
A voice-dictated email?
“Bob” and “Barb” can sound alike…
The email is about signing up for an event…
The day of the event arrives…
“Sign in on this sheet,” says a woman I have never met.
I sign in a blank spot and hand the sheet back to her.
“Hmm,” she says.
“You’re not on my list.”
She looks at the name tags on the table in front of her.
No “Bob” anywhere.
“Nope. You’re definitely not on my list,” says the woman in charge…
“Sue,” She calls to another woman…
“Do you have a Bob on your list?”
“Did you say, ‘Barb’”? the other woman asks.
“I said ‘Bob.’”
“Yes, there’s a Barb who hasn’t signed in yet.”
Barb and Bob do sound alike!
I walk over and look at the second list…
There’s a Barb with my last name.
Everybody laughs about the mistake.
“You don’t need a name tag,” says Sue…
“We know who you are!”
She knows who I am, because I told her.
But what If I wasn’t sure about my identity?
(Uh, that would be a real problem, wouldn’t it?)
Sometimes it’s hard knowing who we are to God …
Sometimes we Christians forget our real identity…
We forget we are Children of God…
John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
1 John 3:1
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.
Galatians 3:26
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Romans 8:16
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Even if we know our identity…
How do we share it with others?
1 John 3:10
By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
2 thoughts on “Who We Are to God”
A tree is identified by it’s fruit is it not?
Does an orange tree produce bananas? Nope. or vice versa.
Does a branch of on any tree produce it’s fruit?
We are the branches, so do we produce fruit or bear fruit?
God Father is the Husbandman,
John 15 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
See it clear from scripture, we are God’s water glass for his use only, to use or not use us, whenever he deems to.
Now are you all available for God Father to take over and bloom you also?
Or should I be out and about right now, producing fruit as religion teaches us to. How can I produce any fruit when the branch can not produce, only bear fruit, God Father the Husbandmen does through us in Risen Son for us?
Thank you again Bob for all you are led in to do from God father and Son the two as One (Won) for us to be in them as Won with them
Galatians 3:7
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
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Galatians 3:26
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
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Galatians 4:3
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
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Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,