You are mine! -2

We have spent a few weeks looking into isaiah 43:1-7. Verse 1 says, he knows and calls you by name. Today will you pounder on verse 7?

“Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Consider the wonder: the Eternal God speaks your name. Not as a stranger calls across a crowd, but as a shepherd knows his sheep, as a father names his child. “Called by my name”; this is covenant spoken in intimacy, the seal of belonging, the brand of beloved possession. You are not anonymous in the world. You are his .

And why? you are “Created for my glory.” Not because the Infinite lacked anything, as if divinity were incomplete and needed your worship to fill some void. No! the Fountain of Life is self-sufficient, the Triune God complete in eternal fellowship. Rather, he created you to share his greatness with you, that you might become the telescope through which his glory is revealed, not the microscope that diminishes it. We do not magnify God as if he were small; we display him as he truly is—vast, magnificent, inexhaustible.

See the triad of divine craftsmanship: you are created, formed, made. From the void God created you; in the womb he formed you with sovereign intention; through all your days he made you: perfecting, completing, bringing to full purpose. Not one stroke of his work is accidental. You are no rough sketch, but a finished masterpiece designed for one end: glory.

Therefore live as one who bears his name. Let your existence be the exaltation of God who first exalted you by calling you his own.

Kay Alli