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I am who I am because He loved me

Identity. That's one of the many things people get confused with these days. Some base it on their achievements. To name a few: Titles. Last names. People surrounding us. The amount of money on our pay checks. Past. Present and Future. But is that who we really are? When all of this are gone, then who are we? All of the above are temporary things..When all of this fades, do our identities also fade? 'I am who I am' Then I read the words of the Apostle Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 15 verse 10: 'But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favour on me —and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace.' Paul before becoming an apostle of Jesus Christ was a murderer, a zealous persecutor. He was also a highly educated man. Yet, when you read the following passages, he speaks of his identity not of what he ha...