This is a well-known quote by Arturo N Catarina:
The devil knows my real name but calls me by my sin.
Jesus knows my sin but calls me by my real name.
My soul is undone.
When I first read this, I was undone as well. My sins have many names, and my soul’s enemy uses them all to condemn me. Some of those names are liar, pretender, unworthy, shame, unacceptable, nobody, and others.
When I was six I gave my heart to Jesus. It was a defining moment in my life. I was a kid and went on with my life. I was a little rebel and got into trouble a lot.
Then in high school, God confronted me about living with one foot in the world and one foot in relationship with Him. It was decision time, again. “But God,” I said, “I’m already a Christian, how does that work?” So at sixteen, I rededicated my life to Jesus.
I began to walk in a new way, one with eyes fixed on Jesus. He didn’t change my personality, he allowed me to live into it. He began to use me in the way He created me.
I’ve always felt so different from others; I think differently and respond differently, but that’s how God created me. So in this different personality, the enemy calls me unacceptable, a rebel, and unwanted.
But God calls me wanted, fresh, unique, creative, a trailblazer, and talented. These are words that aren’t always easy for me to accept because the enemy doesn’t want me to walk in the full measure of what God wants to do through me.
Can you relate? Let’s pray for the believers in our lives that we all can walk in freedom in the reality of who God says we are!
Jesus knows my sin but calls me by my real name.
My soul is undone.