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DAY 4: Sons and Daughters of God

"But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit." (2 Corinthians 3:18)

We get frustrated and disappointed with our realities because we are not fully convinced that we are who He says we are. Our feelings and circumstances influence us too easily. We can only walk in the fullness of God's calling when His Word is the ultimate authority in our lives. Only when we are actively engaged in our calling and walking in the will of our Father, will we experience satisfaction and true joy.

Luke 4 says that Jesus was in His local congregation in the town where He grew up, and as was His custom, He got up, opened the book of Isaiah, and "found the place where it was written." After reading the verses from Isaiah, He sat down and said, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." In other words, He said, "This who it is written I am!"

The man Christ Jesus found Himself in the Word.

That day, Jesus was saying, I am Who "I Am" says I am - I Am what the God "I Am" said through the prophet Isaiah about Me.

Jesus declared in an audible voice what the Word said about Him.

It was shocking to the people who heard it that day. To them, Jesus was just the son of Joseph the carpenter. For thirty years, they had seen Him as an ordinary person like any other in the city of Nazareth, who had nothing special.

But the Word said that He was much more!

Jesus is not just a historical figure but our greatest example. He is the Way, so He lived His life in a way we should learn and imitate.

Jesus did not present Himself at first but found His identity in the voice of His Father and in what was written in the Scriptures. He found Who He was, His calling, and destiny in the written Word.

Jesus also did not stop at His name and title. He obeyed what the Scriptures say about Him. He surrendered, submitted, and obeyed the Will of the Father because His commitment is to be a Son - to be Family.

The hardest thing is to believe that you are who God says you are. Then, the hardest thing is to live as if you believe it. We have less trouble believing that God is who He says He is than we do believing that we are who God says we are.

We know that God is the Creator of the universe because He tells us so in His Word. We know that Jesus died for us and rose from the dead because He told us so in His Word. But what the Bible says about us is just as true as Who God is.

There is more good news in the Bible than bad news. And yet we entertain thoughts so contrary that they are not what God sees and plans for us.

"When we say things about ourselves that differ from God's final Word, things that do not include the rest of the story of what He has said about us, then we are telling a half-truth at best or calling God a liar at worst." Donavon Hill

There is a great war waged by Satan to keep us from reading the Bible. The more we read Scripture, the more Truth we know about Who God is and who we are, and the more purpose we find.

Your identity has a purpose, which is fulfilled by a mission.

My Declaration:

(Watch the following video and speak out loud what God’s Word says about who you are. Verses are paraphrased based on the specific the Bible references.)