Man Loved by God
I am who my Creator says I am.
I am who my Creator says I am. My parents had good reasons for my given names - named after good men of times past. They didn't choose because of what they meant when run together.
Through the suffering my foolish choices eventually brought to me, and the journey into greater maturity that resulted, God revealed I am 'man loved by God' even 'man loved by God, son of a king' if you include my family name.
In 2005 I had finally been going to change my middle name (which I had long despised) for another admired since childhood. Thankfully, I decided to check out the meanings of both before heading to the deed office. It surprised me to find my middle name fit exactly with who God had been teaching me I was over the previous couple years. I instantly fell in love with my given names.
Amazing how God moves to bless us through others, in this case my parents who unknowingly prophesied my true core identity at my birth.
Accepting this as true and moving through life in this identity changes everything for me. O that I would remember to walk in this truth rather than my habit of being too easily persuaded by the world to adopt the false names they pronounce over me.
Some of us need to live in our already given name. Others of us, like Simon, renamed Peter by his Lord, might have a new name waiting for us to step into?
No guts, no glory. Let’s go!