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Do
You Know Who I Am?
The
following story is told about a United Airlines gate
agent in
Denver
,
Colorado
who was confronted with a passenger who probably
deserved to fly as cargo:
During the final days at Denver's old Stapleton airport, a crowded United flight was canceled. A single agent was rebooking a long line of inconvenienced travelers. Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket down on the counter and said,
"I HAVE to be on this flight AND it has to be FIRST
CLASS."
The agent replied,
"I'm sorry sir. I'll be happy to try to help you, but I've got to help these folks first, and I'm sure we'll be able to work something out."
The passenger
was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear,
"Do you have any idea WHO I AM?"
Without
hesitating, the gate agent smiled and grabbed her
public address microphone. "May I have your
attention please?" she began, her voice bellowing
throughout the terminal. "We have a passenger
here at the gate WHO
DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him
find his identity, please come to gate 17." *
I
would like to ask you a similar question that the
angry passenger asked that is much more important:
Do YOU have any idea who God wants you to be?
The answer: God wants YOU
to be His child!
He
wants to adopt you into His family (Galatians 4:4-7).
He wants to take care of you (Matthew 6:25-34)
and give you an inheritance that is “out of this
world” (Romans 8:14-17).
In
order for God to adopt us, a great price had to be
paid. At
just the right time, God sent His Son to redeem us,
that we might receive the adoption as children
(Galatians 4:4-5).
The price of redemption was the death of
God’s Son, Jesus, who died as payment for our sins
and for our admission into God’s family. "How
GREAT is the love the Father has lavished on us, that
we should be called children of God!”
(1 John 3:1).
The
provision for your
adoption into God’s family has been made through
Christ. The
FINAL decision is yours!
You can accept God’s offer by believing
in
and trusting Christ (Acts 16:31), repenting
of your sins (Acts 17:30-31), confessing
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and being baptized
(immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins
(Acts 2:38). Then,
God wants His children to continue to be obedient to
Him. Jesus
said, "Not everyone who SAYS to Me, 'Lord,
Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who DOES
the will of My Father in heaven."
Confused
about your identity?
Realize who God wants YOU
to be: His child.
Accept His offer today!
God bless you!
David
A. Sargent, Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
*
Alan Smith, in "Thought for the Day."
See http://tftd.ibelieve.com
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