Don't I Know You? By Bishop Cleveland Thompson
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Don't I Know You? By Bishop Cleveland Thompson Senior Pastor Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church |
27 So He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob.” 28 And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.” And He said, “Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He blessed him there. 30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” 31 Just as he crossed over Penuel the sun rose on him, and he limped on his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the children of Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank, which is on the hip socket, because He touched the socket of Jacob’s hip in the muscle that shrank. Genesis 32:27-32 |
God has a plan destined for you. God has a place destined for you. No one else can get it, take it, or use it. It has your name on it. But before you can go to where God wants to take you, you have to know who you are.
That’s what your struggles are all about. Your struggle identifies who you are in God. Your struggle will “change your name,” and you come out of the experience declaring, “I am who God says I am. I will respond to what God calls me and not what people say about me. I am greater than what I’m going through. I walk like, talk like, and respond like Jesus. I act like who I am in Him. I represent!”
Don’t get disturbed if no one around you responds like you do to your name. It’s your name and it is situational, based on you and your struggle.
Those around you may continue to call you by your “old” name. But it doesn’t matter what anyone calls you. What counts is what you respond to.
It is how you respond in a crisis, not the crisis itself, that says who you are.
REFLECTION What is your name? What are you calling yourself? Who are you in Christ?. |
Prayer Heavenly Father, learning who I am in You is an ongoing process. Thank you for taking the time to work on me. I declare like Paul did that “I am what I am by the grace of God (1 Corinthians 15:10). I don’t yet know what all that is, but I know if it’s in You, it’s all good and all to Your glory. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen. By Bishop Cleveland Thompson Senior Pastor Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church |
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