I Am What I Am :: Deeper Devotion

By Tim Wade

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

I love being me in the Kingdom of GOD. There was a time, however that I could not say that. In fact there was a time that I hated who I was.

Very few people who know me today know what a miracle I am. I was a latchkey child at age eight, excessively disciplined to the point of suicidal depression since I was six-years-old, stuttered so bad at one point that I could barely speak, and then there was all the years of anger, alcohol, sexual promiscuity, and even some drugs. There was even a time I was so afraid of the world that I couldn’t walk down the driveway to check the mail. And all of this was by the time I was seventeen years old. One girl I knew even said I had a demon in me.

Twenty years later I am a writer and a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am what I am because the grace of GOD was and still is sufficient to change me, and help me turn my life around. It is also sufficient for you. The apostle Paul knew this all too well having been employed as a persecutor of the church. Who are you? What is your past? Take a good, hard, and honest look at yourself. GOD is going to use you in His kingdom if you will let Him. His grace can take all that you are, and have ever been, and use it to His glory.

It doesn’t matter what you have done, or where you have been. GOD makes all things work together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. Be who you are in the kingdom of GOD. By His grace we are saved just as we are. For this reason you and I can say with the Apostle Paul, I am what I am.

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