Journey Of Life Lutheran Church

"Who Am I?" is one of the most important questions anyone can spend time with. Our understanding of who we are affects our feelings about ourselves and our life; our choices and actions; our happiness and peace; and the way we interpret what other people say and do around us. The Bible says that we are a) the pinnacle of God's creation, b) sinners in a broken world, and c) through faith in Christ, redeemed children of God. In accepting God's idea of who we are, we reject all of the pressures of the world that we feel when we look to the world for a sense of worthiness and belonging. We are infinitely valuable children of God. In Christ, we see ourselves as worthy of love and belonging — God has shown us our worth in the death of Jesus Christ. We now live in Christ as God’s dearly beloved children who do things wrong and grow day by day. The shame of “who I am” is gone. We learn and grow in our thoughts, words and actions. We say, “I should not have done that.” But we