In our third devotional, discovering the reality that God is after our hearts.

Today we're going to look at how our hearts reveal our identity.

May God call out from within us, who He's truly made us to be, as we draw near to him in his presence.

Welcome to the first of team podcast. Our verse for today comes from Isaiah 43, verse 1, where scripture says, I have called you by name, you are mine.

Many of us spend our entire lives

just trying to answer one simple question,

Who am I?

We look to our accolades and our strengths and weaknesses to define us.

We look to other people to determine who it is that we are.

We allow circumstances and open or closed doors to tell us who we're supposed to be.

We look everywhere, but to the one who actually knows the true answer.

But God says to you and me, fear not, for I have redactored. actually knows the true answer.

But God says to you and me, fear not, for I have redeemed you.

I've called you by name, you are mine.

In 1st Psalm 3 1 says, see what kind of love the Father has given to us, so that we should

be called children of God, and so we are.

And in Ephesians 219, Scripture says,

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,

but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.

We need a renewing of our identity.

We need to look at the Word of God and choose to believe that we truly are who He says we are entirely. We need to let our Creator define the identity of His creation.

You serve a God who has called you his child,

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