by Gail Rodgers
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http://thelife.com/blogs/experience/kindle/2008/10/02/gods-workmanship-4/
** What are the benefits of recognizing your significance to God and others? In this Online Bible Study you will discover the answer. http://mag.thelife.com/study/lifesignificance.html?section=living_significance
It’s important to accept what God says about who we are. All too often we live with feelings of deep inadequacy. We may regret the past or fear the future. In life’s crazy pace it’s easy to forget to schedule in time with our Lord and to ask ourselves, “Am I growing or eroding in who I am becoming?”
A wise person grows in understanding who he is.
One who knows how God sees him is confident in his identity. He knows God made him just the way he is and for specific tasks. He does not compare the inside of himself with the outside of another.
He makes the effort to grow in his knowledge of the truth of what God says about him. One who understands who he is in God’s sight knows he is:
* Accepted (Ephesians 1:5)
* Secure (Philippians 1:6)
* Significant (John 15:16)
His identity is not bound up in what he has, how he looks or what he wears. His identity is secured in who he is as a beloved child of God.
“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10).
Read Psalm 139 and ask God to fill your heart with the knowledge of just how esteemed you are in God’s sight. Ask Him to help you grow in your understanding of who you really are!
Permanent devotional link: http://thelife.com/experience/devotionalforwomen/gods-workmanship/
Questions: Where does your confidence come from?
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