Christian Devotional-Stories and Bible verses about the presence of God in our lives

Who We Are to God

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.

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