The other day I was thinking about the question, “Who am I?” I’m guessing others have pondered this from time to time. I thought about how we introduce ourselves. I’m a physical therapist. “Adam’s dad.” I’m a teacher. “Joe’s wife.” The list could go on. 

I realized these introductions are based on what we do. What happens when my child moves away and doesn’t need me like they did before? Or I get injured and can no longer work as a physical therapist? Or my spouse dies? Or I lose my job? Then what?

My identity will be shaken when it is based on what I do because what I do is not the ultimate definition of who I am. So I’ve been taking some time to go back and look at who God says I am.  Regardless of where you are and what you’re doing today, remember this is what God says about you.

1 Peter 2:9 – But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;  

Ephesians 1:4-5 – His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by brining us to himself through Jesus Christ. And his gave him great pleasure. 

Ephesians 2:10 – For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

John 15:16 – “You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.”

Ephesians 2:19 – So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,

2 Corinthians 3:6 – He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.