‘If you know you are Beloved of God, you can live with an enormous amount of success and an enormous amount of failure without losing your identity, because your identity is that you are the Beloved.’ - Henri Nouwen
What is true for every follower of Christ, regardless of how visible or overlooked, how successful or forgotten:
You were dead, Christ has made you alive (Eph 2:5)
You are a new creation (2 Cor 5:17)
God has canceled the record of debt standing against us (Col 2:14).
You have been transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His marvelous light (Col 1:13).
God is for you (Rom 8:31).
You have peace with God (Rom 5:1).
You are sealed by the Holy Spirit (Eph 1:13).
Christ has taken the punishment and death we rightfully deserve (Rom 6:23).
You have been set free, for freedom (Gal 5:1).
You are a child of God (1 Jn 3:1).
God has not left you as an orphan, He has come to you (Jn 14:18).
You are adopted into the family of God (Eph 1:5)
God is your father and Christ is your brother (1 Cor 8:6).
You are a coheir with Christ (Rom 8:17).
Nothing can separate you from the love of God (Rom 8:31).
Nothing can snatch you from His hand (Jn 10:28).
You are forgiven (Ex 34:6-7).
You are justified (Rom 5:1).
Christ has made you His own (Phil 3:12).
God has prepared good works for you to walk in (Eph 2:10).
God has never forsaken you (Heb 13:5).
You have been bought by a price (1 Cor 6:20).
Your name is written in the Lamb’s book of life (Rev 21:27).
All this and more. In and through and because of Christ. Hallelujah.
Lord, let me live like it is true, amen and amen.
Amen,
AB