Identities

I start every morning and evening with coffee and God through daily devotions from Our Daily Bread Ministries, https://odb.org. “Discovering My True Self” is the title of today’s devotion. The scripture is from 1 John 2:28–3:3 with the key verse, “We know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.." 1 John 3:2. Amy Peterson wrote this devotion. My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, before I write, I pray first to God to guide my words, so that it may serve as spiritual food and guidance. I want God to be the sole source of my writing, so all the credit goes to Him, not to me. I am only his humble servant. I thank God that He led me to use Our Daily Bread Ministries as a base for comments. This article is about identities. We all have our earthly identities, but God's children have a spiritual identity. John, writing to believers, said that God has called us His children (1 John 3:1). That is true today, we are identified as God's children. We don’t fully understand that identity, but when we see Jesus, we will be like him. We will one day be restored to the identity intended for us, which has been marred by sin. We will be fully restored to the identity God intended for us. We will be made new.

Where do you find your identity? According to Scripture, how does God view you?

May God bless you. May you find your identity with God.