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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