Tuesday, August 10, 2021 Identified as His Own "It is God who enables us, along with you, to stand firm for Christ. He has commissioned us, and he has identified us as his own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts as the first installment that guarantees everything he has promised us" (2 Corinthians 1:21-22 NLT). I had just picked up my bag from the airport carousel and started wheeling it away when a frantic lady came chasing after me. "You have my bag!" she was saying again and again. I thought she was crazy. It was my bag. "Ma'am, I'm sorry," I said to her when she caught up with me. "This is my bag." "Open it up," she said. I did. It was her bag. Our bags were identical. I mistook her bag for mine because I didn't check the ID tag. The Bible tells us that God has put his ID tag on us as believers, which says, "Property of Jesus Christ." And that ID tag is the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. The apostle Paul wrote, "It is God who enables us, along with you, to stand firm for Christ. He has commissioned us, and he has identified us as his own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts as the first installment that guarantees everything he has promised us" (2 Corinthians 1:21-22 NLT). |
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