We all have a name at least and you are either lucky to have been given a name you really like or blessed to have been purposely given a meaningful name. However, as we grow and journey in life, events happen that give us other names such as graduate for finishing school or survivor for beating a crisis or parent for having children or CEO for leading a business.
It is not so much about the names as it is about situations that try to label us which is not always positive as in being labeled a rebel, a failure, an orphan, a dropout and others like that. If we would go by the many significant situations and circumstance that have happened to us, how many names would each of us bear, one too many.
But of what importance are these circumstantial highly-conditional descriptions of who we are? Which of them really matter? While you are thinking of a response, you should remember the only description that matter; we are sons and daughters of the living God. Romans 8 verse 14 declares that as many of us as are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
As believers, our greatest, most constant identity has to be seeing ourselves as God sees us – His children, who regardless of fleeting life happenings are irrevocably blessed and have been made right by the sacrifices of Jesus which we have partaken of by our faith in him.
When life comes knocking and throwing all sorts at us, whether good or bad, we should never forget that those things do not define us. They do not determine who we are because we are of God and it is only through the lens of God’s word that we see ourselves and our greatest identity is that of being the children of the Most High.
