The Believer's Identity

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

February 18, 2026

The Believer's Identity

Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns,

for your heavenly Father feeds them.

And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?

Seek the Kingdom of God above all else,

and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

Matthew 6:26,33 

I enjoy looking at images of our vast universe. These images are a constant reminder to me that nothing is impossible for God. After all, God looked at a world that did not exist and spoke it into being by the power of His Word. (See Genesis 1 and Hebrews 11:3) The limitless power and love of God inspire me to hold fast to these words above from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. These words are meant to inspire us to take a leap of faith and believe to the very depths of our being that God truly knows and cares for us.

When we take this leap of faith and make Christ our life, God, our Father, declares that we are in a right relationship with Him. God further attests that this right relationship, since it was given to us as a gift, is not based on our behavior. We are not his new creation in Christ because of what we did, or we are doing, or what we have refrained from doing. Rather, it is because of what God has done in uniting us to Christ in death, burial, resurrection, and enthronement that we are forevermore His beloved child, with whom He is pleased and upon whom His favor rests.

My Takeaway: John Ortberg once said, “What is impossible to do by trying, is possible to do with training.” As we train ourselves to learn and hold fast to the above affirmation, we will find ourselves squarely in God’s grace for each day.

(Scripture cites for the above affirmation: Philippians 3:9, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 1 Corinthians 1:30-31, Romans 5:17, Romans 10:3-4, Galatians 2:20-21)

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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