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Be who you are // Thursday E-Devotion

Be who you are. If you know Jesus, are a Christian, then God accepts you just as you are. We need to hear that.

Every day I deal with people who make their relationship with God more complex than it is. It is simple. Just you and Him. Not what other people think. It is God who makes us right as we admit our need and confess Him as Savior.

Acts 13:39 (nlt) --- Everyone who believes in him is declared right with God—something the law of Moses could never do.

Be who you are. You are always right (watch out). I mean that God has forgiven and even forgotten your sing. That is a big deal. There is no other way to be right all the time other than to know God.

No, that does not mean you are perfect. But the perfect one holds you. It doesn't mean you can tell people that you are always right. That's wrong. But the one who makes you right made you and is your Savior. That's good.

1 Peter 2:9 (nlt) --- But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God's very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

Of all those people I talk to who have a low or no Spiritual self-esteem, everyone needs that verse. We are god's kids. be who you are. We are chosen by God, and He is good to us. We are now people of light. Be who you are.

Be who you are. We are headed back to the beginning, to the origin and original of what Christianity is. That means 'what God says goes' and that 'He is always right' and has made you right with Him.

It is more important to be right with God than to be right with the people around you. I would rather offend the people around me than to offend God. What do you think? Be who you are!

Psalm 68:35 (nlt) --- God is awesome in his sanctuary.The God of Israel gives power and strength to his people.Praise be to God!

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