Scars - Who We Are - Acts 9:15

This is Namma for Christ with the one hundred forty-eighth inspirational message dated Thursday, August 1st, 2019. The title of this message is "Scars – Who We Are - Acts 9:15".

The first word of the title is also the title of the above inspirational song/video “Scars” (with lyrics) by the Christian group “I Am They”. The scripture comes from the fifteenth verse of the ninth chapter of the book of Acts:

 

 

Acts 9:15

New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.

 

For many years, I have enjoyed reading the daily inspirational messages as provided by Our Daily Bread Ministries in their publications of "OUR DAILY BREAD".  

 I recently read the message for the day (for July 31^st, 2019) and found it to be so inspiring, memorable and “thought-provoking”.  This message made me reflect on what is really important: in how GOD sees us as “new creations in Christ”! God views us - in not who we “were” but who we are becoming through the power of the Holy Spirit

I wanted to share this message with you (see the below message). Our Daily Bread Ministries has the website of:  www.odb.org so that you can read and enjoy life-changing wisdom of daily inspirational messages based on scripture from the Bible. Please read and enjoy:

 

Who We Are

This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name.

Acts 9:15

Today's Scripture & Insight:

Acts 9:13–16

I’ll never forget the time I took my future wife to meet my family. With a twinkle in their eyes, my two elder siblings asked her, “What exactly do you see in this guy?” She smiled and assured them that by God’s grace I had grown to be the man she loved.
I loved that clever reply because it also reflects how, in Christ, the Lord sees more than our past. In Acts 9, He directed Ananias to heal Saul, a known persecutor of the church whom God had blinded. Ananias was incredulous at receiving this mission, stating that Saul had been rounding up believers in Jesus for persecution and even execution. God told Ananias not to focus on who Saul had been but on who he had become: an evangelist who would bring the good news to all the known world, including to the gentiles (those who weren’t Jews) and to kings (v. 15). Ananias saw Saul the Pharisee and persecutor, but God saw Paul the apostle and evangelist.
We can sometimes view ourselves only as we have been—with all of our failures and shortcomings. But God sees us as new creations, not who we were but who we are in Jesus and who we’re becoming through the power of the Holy Spirit. O God, teach us to view ourselves and others in this way!

By:  Peter Chin

How can you begin to better view yourself and others in light of who you are in Christ today? How does it encourage you to know God isn’t through growing and refining you?

Heavenly Father, help me to find my full identity in You. Allow me to humbly see others through Your eyes of grace!

 

Please enjoy the above inspirational song/video “Scars” (with lyrics) by the Christian group “I Am They”

 (I do not own the rights to this song.)

BE BLESSED!