Connect Who You Are to Whose You Are

Every step closer tied my stomach in knots. On the kitchen counter laid the evidence that my biological father existed. 

Around seven-years-old at the time, my birth certificate brought a painful reminder that my real dad was missing from my young and vulnerable life (both me and my twin sister).

Although I had a new dad enter the picture, my wonderful step-father Wendell, who loved and cared for me. 

Still, my heart ached to know deep down:

Who am I? 

And more importantly, Whose am I?

Likewise, have you ever struggled with questions about identity? We discussed identity in Christ recently. Yet, we need to take it a step further.

Who and Whose 

Sometimes we separate who we are with whose we are. But the two were always meant to be one and the same.

Sometimes we separate who we are with whose we are. But the two were always meant to be the same, to connect identity to belonging. #identity #belonging Share on X

My father came back into my life a few years later. And my last name had already changed to my step-father’s with my adoption. Then, my name changed again, back to the original family surname, when the adoption was deemed as not valid.

My sister and I lived with one dad (step) and visited the other. I wasn’t sure whether or not to call both “Dad.” Because they were different as night and day in personality, discipline, showing affection, communication, and opinions.

It was all confusing.

Identity and Belonging

When I came to know Christ as Lord and Savior at sixteen, I began a new life in Christ with a brand new father, my heavenly Father. 

And God, the Father, not only wants us to rest in who we are in Him, but to also find our security in whose we are, we belong to Him.

Because at our very core, who we are and whose we are can never be separated. 

God, the Father, not only wants us to rest in who we are in Him, but to also find our security in whose we are, we belong to Him. Because at our very core, who we are and whose we are can never be separated. #identity #belonging Share on X

So let’s look at powerful declarations to connect who we are and whose we are. 

Connect: God Knows My Name

(1.)  My heavenly Father never goes missing from my life. “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5b (ESV)

(2.)  God knows my name. (Isaiah 43:1)

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