Welcome to Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word podcast. I'm Dalton from the Paul Trip

Ministries team, and each week I'll read aloud Paul's popular Wednesday's word devotional,

short, powerful reflections that connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

You can get each week's devotional straight to your inbox by subscribing at

paultrip.com slash Wednesday or find it any time on our website, the Paul Tripp app, or on Facebook

and Instagram. This week, Paul warns against identity amnesia, reminding us that spiritual

growth comes from remembering our true identity in Christ as both sinners in need of grace

and children fully embraced by it.

Here's this week's Wednesday's Word.

You might have noticed that on my books, my name is listed as Paul David Tripp, and in other locations, like here in Wednesday's Word, I'm just plain Paul without the middle name.

No, I'm not experiencing an identity crisis or forgetting to put my full name half the time.

Although, when Luella speaks to me as Paul David, I know I better pay attention.

Why the difference? Well, here's a fun fact. When I was getting ready

to write my first book nearly 30 years ago, there was another Paul Tripp, a children's musician,

songwriter, actor, and author most famous for a piece of children's classical music called

Tubba the tubba. So to not confuse my writing with that of the other Paul Trip and Tubby the

tubba, I listed my middle name, and it stuck on all my books ever since.

Last week, I wrote about location amnesia and asked if you knew your spiritual address,

that is, remembering that you live in a dramatically broken world.

Many of us struggle with location amnesia that results in disappointment and discouragement

because we forget or deny the reality of where

God has chosen for us to live until our eternal home.

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