Secure Assurance

Today’s Reflection

Growing up, it was the stories of the Bible that comforted that restless heart, that sustained me with the thread of eternity, the secure assurance that I am exactly who God created me to be, whoever’s home I might inhabit, whatever name I may go by. I devoured the stories of Creation, with their poetic declaration: You are from God. “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness,” said God in the beginning (or at least, only a few days later) (Gen. 1:26).

—Rosalind C. Hughes,  A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing (Upper Room Books, 2020)

Today’s Question

Where do you find assurance that you are exactly who God created you to be?

Today’s Scripture

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.—Psalm 139:14 (NRSVUE)

Prayer for the Week

How infinite is your embrace, O God. How broad and high and deep and enduring is your love. Amen.