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Shortly after leaving the Philippines and arriving in Cambodia I felt God calling me to delve into some questions I had. My main question being..
 
My identity.
 
Now we’re not talking about who I think I am, or who my past says I am, or who society says I am.
 
I wanted to know who I truly am; and by a far greater standard.
 
By His…
 
I wanted to know..
 
Who am I?
 

Who is Nikki?
 

Who is the women God created me to be.
 
Not who the media says I am, not who my friends and family say I am. Not who you say I am.

But;
 

Who God says I am.
 
 
For that is the only truth that truly matters..
 
 

His truth is the only truth.
 
 

I realized that I didn’t know the answer to those questions but I desperately wanted to.
 
 
I wanted to know not just who I am, but who I am in Christ.
 
I had ponder these questions out loud when someone suggested that I should just ask God, that He’d tell me.
 
So simple. So obvious.
 
 
Upon delving deeper into these questions I was praying through them.
 
I had been praying for God so show me who I am, begged Him to tell me something, anything that would lead me to fully know my true self.
 
One morning as I was reading His glorious word He spoke.
 

“Beloved, we are GOD’S CHILDREN..”
[1 John 3:2]
 

Bam! There is was
 

#1
 

First and foremost I AM GOD’S CHILD.

Again,
 
So simple. So obvious.
 
Yes!
 
I am God’s child.
 

I am His Beloved daughter.
 

I’ve been walking with this revelation of mine for a few weeks now and the thought of Gods answer to my question; the fact that I am His child who He loves deeply still has me is awe..
 

[..but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood..] -Romans 5:8-9
 

I’m still in such awe that He who is so perfect and flawless can love someone as flawed as me, and how grateful I am to have the privilege of being His child.
 

[for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood to be received by faith.] -Romans 3:23-25
 

I’m in awe that He can love us who “have sinned and all fallen short of His glory” that even in all our sin and flaws He adores US.

[as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self..be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created in the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.]-Ephesians 4: 21-24

Even more then loving us He has made us His beloved children, we’re created in His glorious image and through the crucifixion of His son we have been set free we have been made NEW in His image.
 

[just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in a newness of life. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has dies has been set FREE from sin.] -Romans 6:4,6-7

 
 “See what kind of lovethe Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God..”
-1 John 3:1
 

I don’t know about you, but I think that’s some pretty darn
exciting news!
 
 

What could be greater then being a child of the creator of universe, of the Most High God..
 

I’m going to go with nothing, but that’s just me 😉
 
 
Just incase you were wondering He didn’t stop there.
 
 
As if being a child of God wasn’t enough..
 
 
We are His beloved

We are royalty

We are pure

We are ambassadors for Christ.

We are chosen, holy and blameless

We are all
His beloved children