How would God introduce you?

I was asked to speak at a retreat today organized by Anna Bryant owner of Unmasked Seminars & Events, and I'm going to share just a small portion of the message God laid on my heart. Please turn to Ephesians 2 and read it all the way through before moving on to the next paragraph.

Ephesians 2

In this passage, Paul writes to the Ephesians, a Gentile church, who they were apart from God and then tells them who they are in Christ. I asked the participants at the retreat and I'll ask you to write down how you think God would introduce you, using the words in Ephesians 2. Not how we would introduce ourselves, but as redeemed followers of Christ, how would God introduce us? The words we have to choose from are the following:

Here's mine to get you started:

This is Allison. She is my daughter. I adopted her, and she is my heir. She is my workmanship. I knitted her together in her mother’s womb. I have good work planned for her. I have invited her to be saved and live out eternity with me. I have given her a spirit of wisdom, and the Holy Spirit lives within her. She is forgiven of all her sin. I have brought her near to me as a believer, and she is no longer dead in her sin.

I hope you will sit with this just a little while today, write out your introduction, and post it somewhere you can see it often.

God calls us to be His and to be saved. He then calls us to use the gifts and talents He gave us. Some of us are chasing toddlers, taking care of the sick, teaching others, working from home, working in fast food...and on and on it goes. He made some of us to be in the limelight and some of us to be in the background. He does not show favoritism, and He does not call us to do something, then not equip us. He calls us to do the work set before us, and to do it with a desire to please Him. We were, but now we are!

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