Identity: God's

If you missed this past weekend, the passages for reflection this week follow:

• Day Two: Ephesians 4:30
• Day Three: Hebrews 12:5-12
• Day Four: Matthew 6:12
• Day Five: Matthew 18:21-35

Ephesians 4:30 contains an incredible message for us. My prayer time focused on how big God is that he can concern himself with my sin and grieve it. God is big enough to care about the smallest needs. It also focused on thanksgiving for his assurances. This one verse is one of the most emotion packed, loving and caring passages in the Bible. I hope to take it with me all day.

And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption. (Ephesians 4:30)

Identity: Forgiven

He is the propitiation for our sins... (1 John 2:2a)

I am forgiven because God's love is so deep and rich that God the Son absorbed God's wrath against sin for me and for the world.

My prayer time this morning focused on forgiveness and the gift of confession--the opportunity to admit when I've sinned, even though I am forgiven. To clear the air with God. To remember that I'm free to live for him. I don't have to sin. I live fuller and freer when I don't.