What Is Your "Real" Name?

What name do you call yourself? What label do you wear? How do you define who you are?

Unloved.

Ugly.

Not worth anyone’s time.

Fat.

Stupid.

Abandoned.

We all have our stories to tell and reasons why we have fallen prey to believing these lies told to us (sometimes all it took was to hear it once and we believed it). Let me assure you none of those names belong to you. They are not true.

You may be thinking, “Yeah. Easy for you to say… you don’t know me.”

I may not know you. I may not know the full story. I may not know all of the jaded details that have been building blocks in these names you have allowed yourself to wear. But God knows you. God knows every detail. God alone can change your name back to the one He recognizes you as:

Child of the King.

Worth pursuing.

        Worth dying for.

Accepted just the way you are.

Beautiful.

Beloved.      

   

Unconditionally loved.

So, who’s name will you wear?

“The Father has loved us so much! This shows how much he loved us: We are called children of God. And we really are his children.” 1John 3:1

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