We Are His

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 191, We Are His.

"Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture." Psalm 100:3.

Notice how the verse begins. It doesn't begin with a feeling. It begins with a command: know. That means decide to accept it, settle it in your mind before you feel anything at all. Because real worship doesn't start with emotion — it starts with knowledge. And the knowledge this psalm asks for is simple, but it changes everything: the LORD, He is God.

That sounds obvious, doesn't it? But how often do you live your day as if you were the center, as if your own strength held your life together? The psalmist cuts that off at the root. He made us. We did not make ourselves. It was not your effort, your intelligence, your luck that created your existence. It was Him. Every breath you're taking right now, while you listen to me, is a gift. That single fact reshapes the posture of the heart — from someone demanding to someone receiving with gratitude.

And look at the second part: we are his. Not just creatures floating loose in the universe, unowned, undirected. We are his people. That is the language of belonging, of covenant, of family. You are not out here alone trying to figure life out on your own. You belong to someone who made you on purpose and calls you His own.

Then comes the image that closes the verse — the sheep of his pasture. That image is not about shameful weakness; it's about constant care. A shepherd doesn't make the sheep and then walk away. He leads them every day. He finds water for them. He guards them through the night. He carries them when they're hurt. God didn't make you and abandon you — He made you in order to care for you, day after day, without stopping.

Now think with me for a moment: how often through your day do you forget this? You wake up and the first thought is the to-do list, or anxiety about what's coming, or comparison with someone who seems to be doing better. And in that forgetting, something is lost — the peace that comes from knowing whose you are. Because when you forget who you are, everything else starts to come apart. The small frustrations of the day carry too much weight. Other people's opinions get too much power over you. But when you remember first — before anything else — that you are His people, sheep of His pasture, the whole day reorders itself around that.

So here is today's call: the moment you wake up, before you pick up your phone, before you check any message, headline, or feed, say out loud — with your actual voice, not just in your thoughts — "I belong to God." Let that be the first sentence of your day, not the last thing you remember at night. Know it first. Then live the day out of that truth.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.